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dc.contributor.authorHarvey, V.
dc.contributor.authorFranzen, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, John
dc.contributor.authorSeymour, Nick
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-13T09:10:19Z
dc.date.available2018-12-13T09:10:19Z
dc.date.created2018-12-12T02:47:02Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationHarvey, V. and Franzen, T. and Morgan, J. and Seymour, N. 2018. A novel approach for characterizing broad-band radio spectral energy distributions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 476 (2): pp. 2717-2730.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71500
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/MNRAS/STY386
dc.description.abstract

© 2017 The Authors. We present a new broad-band radio frequency catalogue across 0.12 GHz = v = 20 GHz created by combining data from the Murchison Widefield Array Commissioning Survey, the Australia Telescope 20 GHz survey, and the literature. Our catalogue consists of 1285 sources limited by S20 GHz> 40 mJy at 5s, and contains flux density measurements (or estimates) and uncertainties at 0.074, 0.080, 0.119, 0.150, 0.180, 0.408, 0.843, 1.4, 4.8, 8.6, and 20 GHz. We fit a second-order polynomial in log-log space to the spectral energy distributions of all these sources in order to characterize their broad-band emission. For the 994 sources that are well described by a linear or quadratic model we present a new diagnostic plot arranging sources by the linear and curvature terms. We demonstrate the advantages of such a plot over the traditional radio colour-colour diagram. We also present astrophysical descriptions of the sources found in each segment of this new parameter space and discuss the utility of these plots in the upcoming era of large area, deep, broad-band radio surveys.

dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.titleA novel approach for characterizing broad-band radio spectral energy distributions
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume476
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage2717
dcterms.source.endPage2730
dcterms.source.issn0035-8711
dcterms.source.titleMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
curtin.departmentCurtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (Physics)
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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