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Radio Observations of the UK Deep X-ray Survey Area
Nick Seymour
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
A Brief History of Radio Astronomy
Early Origins
Post Second World War
The Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background
The Development of Multi-Element Interferometers
The Future; eVLA, eMERLIN and the SKA
The Unified Active Galactic Nuclei Model
Seyfert Galaxies
Quasars
Radio Properties of Quasars
Distinction between Quasars and Seyferts
Radio Galaxies
LINERS
BL Lac objects and Optically Violent Variables
Unified AGN Model
'Grand' Unified AGN Model
The UK Deep
ROSAT
X-ray Survey
Original Motivation
The Observations
Results and Conclusions
Motivation for extending the X-ray survey to other wavelengths
Thesis Outline
The 13hr field
radio data
Motivation for the Radio Survey
Software
Observations and Data Reduction
Initial Data Reduction
Self-calibration of the data
The Image Construction
Weighty Issues
The Complete Source List
Source Extraction
The
Resolution Map
Bias
SAD
Bias
Instrumental Correction
The distribution of angular sizes
Other issues and the final source list
The Source Counts
The log(N)-log(S) plot background
Completeness
Comparison of our log(N)-log(S) data with other results
Summary
The complete
source list
The 13hr field radio data and radio spectra
Introduction
Data Calibration
Image Construction and Tessellation
Source Extraction
Correlation with the
data
Extended sources and core radio spectral indices
Discussion
Conclusions
The complete source list
Optical counterparts to the Radio Sources
The Images
The
-band Data
CCD Photometry
Registration of the Subaru Coordinate Frame
The Source Extraction
Correlation with the Radio Sources
Radio-optical position offsets
Extended Radio Sources
The
-band data
Colour distribution
General Properties of the Radio/Optical sample
The Radio to Optical flux ratio of the Radio Sources
The stellarity
The Optical Spectra
The Data
Identification of optical spectra and determination of redshift
The results
The Spectroscopic Sub-sample
Distribution of properties with redshift
Distribution of Optical Spectroscopic Class with
-band magnitude
Rest frame magnitudes and luminosities
Distribution in Space
Conclusion
Correlation of Radio sources with X-ray counterparts
Introduction
The
Chandra
Observations
Observational Details
Source Extraction
Results
Correction of
ROSAT
results
Correlation of the
Chandra
sources with the
Radio Data
Results
General properties of the X-ray/radio sample
Distribution of optical spectroscopic class with X-ray flux
X-ray/Radio flux ratio
Radio/Optical flux ratio distribution as a function of X-ray flux
Radio spectra of X-ray sources
The emission mechanism in examples of radio/X-ray correlations
ROSAT
117
Chandra
4
Chandra
33
ROSAT
32
Conclusions
Conclusions
Summary of Data
The radio data
The optical data
The X-ray data
Summary of Results
Correlation of the Radio and X-ray data
Quasars
BL Lacs
Narrow Emission Line Galaxies
Clusters
Future potential of this survey
Existing Data
XMM
MERLIN
Work to be done with current data
Future Guaranteed Data
The Data
Potential of these new data
The 1hr field
Concluding remarks
Appendix
-band Optical counterparts to the radio sources
Optical 'postage-stamps' with radio contours of all the
Chandra
sources
Bibliography
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radio data
source list
data
Radio Data
-band Optical counterparts to the radio sources
Resolution Map
-band data