1. A closer look at the deep radio sky: Multi-component radio sources at 3-GHz VLA-COSMOS
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E. Middleberg, Kunal Mooley, Eleni Vardoulaki, K. Tisanić, Steven T. Myers, Vernesa Smolčić, S. Marchesi, Frank Bertoldi, Anton M. Koekemoer, Eva Schinnerer, Sarah K. Leslie, M. Bondi, Mark Sargent, J. Delhaize, Mladen Novak, Ghassem Gozaliasl, G. Zamorani, E. F. Jiménez Andrade, Alexis Finoguenov, N. Herrera Ruiz, Alexander Karim, Paolo Ciliegi, Benjamin Magnelli, Department of Physics, and Helsinki Institute of Physics
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ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI ,AGN FEEDBACK ,PRIRODNE ZNANOSTI. Fizika. Astronomija i astrofizika ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,catalogs ,galaxies: active ,galaxies: star formation ,radio continuum: galaxies ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,ABELL CLUSTERS ,Flux ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,active [catalogs – galaxies] ,STAR-FORMATION ,catalogs – galaxies: active ,0103 physical sciences ,NATURAL SCIENCES. Physics. Astronomy and Astrophysics ,FIELD ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Image resolution ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,QB ,media_common ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,HUBBLE-SPACE-TELESCOPE ,115 Astronomy, Space science ,CATALOG ,Galaxy ,galaxies [radio continuum] ,GREEN VALLEY ,Space and Planetary Science ,Sky ,Area coverage ,Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ,ANGLE TAIL GALAXIES ,Cosmos (category theory) ,star formation [galaxies] ,EMISSION - Abstract
In this data paper we present and characterise the multi-component radio sources identified in the VLA-COSMOS Large Project at 3 GHz (0.75 arcsec resolution, 2.3 ��Jy/beam rms), i.e. the radio sources which are composed of two or more radio blobs.The classification of objects into multi-components was done by visual inspection of 351 of the brightest and most extended blobs from a sample of 10,899 blobs identified by the automatic code blobcat. For that purpose we used multi-wavelength information of the field, such as the 1.4-GHz VLA-COSMOS data and the UltraVISTA stacked mosaic available for COSMOS. We have identified 67 multi-component radio sources at 3 GHz: 58 sources with AGN powered radio emission and 9 star-forming galaxies. We report 8 new detections that were not observed by the VLA-COSMOS Large Project at 1.4 GHz, due to the slightly larger area coverage at 3 GHz. The increased spatial resolution of 0.75 arcsec has allowed us to resolve (and isolate) multiple emission peaks of 28 extended radio sources not identified in the 1.4-GHz VLA-COSMOS map. We report the multi-frequency flux densities (324 MHz, 325 MHz, 1.4 GHz & 3 GHz), star-formation-rates, and stellar masses of these objects. Multi-component objects at 3-GHz VLA-COSMOS inhabit mainly massive galaxies (>10^10.5 Msun). The majority of the multi-component AGN lie below the main-sequence of star-forming galaxies (SFGs), in the green valley and the quiescent region. We provide detailed description of the objects: amongst the AGN there are 2 head-tail, 10 core-lobe, 9 wide-angle-tail (WAT), 8 double-double or Z-/X-shaped, 3 bent-tail radio sources, and 26 symmetric sources, while amongst the SFGs we find the only star-forming ring seen in radio emission in COSMOS. We report a large number (32/58) of disturbed/bent multi-component AGN, 18 of which do not lie within X-ray groups in COSMOS (0.08 < z < 1.53). [abridged], A&A accepted; 32 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables, 3 Appendices
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- 2019
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