VLA A370 Cluster of Galaxies 1.4-GHz Source Catalog

Description

This table contains the 1.4-GHz source catalog for the field of the cluster of galaxies A370 as observed with the Very Large Array (VLA). This is one of the deepest radio images of a cluster field ever taken. The image covers an area of 40' x 40' with a synthesized beam of ~1.7" and a noise level of ~5.7 µJy (µJy) near the field center. The authors have cataloged 200 redshifts for the A370 field. In the reference paper, they construct differential number counts for the central regions (radius < 16') of this cluster, and find that the faint (S<sub>1.4GHz</sub> < 3 mJy) counts of A370 are roughly consistent with the highest blank field number counts. Their analyses indicate that the number counts are primarily from field radio galaxies. The authors suggest that the disagreement of their number counts for this cluster with those from a similarly deep observation of A2390 that was also presented in the reference paper can be largely attributed to cosmic variance. The authors observed the A370 cluster field with the VLA in the A configuration for ~42.4hr on-source during 1999 August and September. K. S. Dwarakanath observed A370 in the B configuration for ~18.4hr on-source during 1994 August and September. The field center is located at 02:39:32 -01:35:07 (J2000). This is offset by approximately 5 arcminutes from the cluster center at 02:39:50.5 -01:35:08. The authors also targeted 58 radio sources, in A370, that had no existing optical spectral data using the Hydra fiber spectrograph on the Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO (WIYN) telescope (spectral window of ~4500 - 9500 Angstrom). They preferentially targeted optically bright galaxies, obtaining these data in a single two-hour pointing on 2012 January 20. Of the 58 targets, the authors obtained high-confidence redshifts for 36. This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2017 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/202/2/">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/202/2/</a> file table2.dat. This file contained 699 entries for sources detected at 1.4 GHz in the A370 field, as well as 524 entries for sources detected at 1.4 GHz in the A2390 field. Only the former are included in this HEASARC table, while the latter can be found in the HEASARC's <a href="vla23901p4.html">VLA23901P4</a> table. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

Resources

Name Format Description Link
5 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov%2FW3Browse%2Fall%2Fvla3701p4.html
5 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov%2Fxamin%2Fvo%2Fcone%3Fshowoffsets%26table%3Dvla3701p4%26
21 vla3701p4.html https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/vla3701p4.html
5 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=vla3701p4&
21 rassnorsam.html https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/rassnorsam.html
5 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=rassnorsam&
5 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=vla3701p4&
21 vla3701p4.html https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/vla3701p4.html

Tags

  • na

Topics

Categories