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Publication date | 1/01/2006 |
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Host publication | 2005 Past Meets Present in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Proceedings of the 15th Portuguese National Meeting, ENAA 2005 |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd |
Pages | 75-76 |
Number of pages | 2 |
ISBN (print) | 9812568875, 9789812568878 |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Event | 15th Portuguese National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics, ENAA 2005 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 28/07/2005 → 30/07/2005 |
Conference | 15th Portuguese National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics, ENAA 2005 |
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Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Lisbon |
Period | 28/07/05 → 30/07/05 |
Conference | 15th Portuguese National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics, ENAA 2005 |
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Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Lisbon |
Period | 28/07/05 → 30/07/05 |
The aim of this study is to characterize the optically faint submillijansky (sub-mjy) radio population, exploring its nature and evolution, and thus to complete recent studies which have successfully done this for optically bright sources. In order to achieve this, the VLT/VIMOS was used to obtain spectra of several tens of galaxies that are part of the Phoenix Deep Survey (PDS), a multiwavelength survey based on deep 1.4 Ghz radio imaging, reaching well into the sub-100 μJy level. The analysis of the first set of observations reveal 32 sources with a secure redshift determination having optical magnitudes 19≤R≤24 mag. Of these, 34% are star-forming galaxies, 22% are identified as Seyfert galaxies, showing active galactic nucleus signatures, 6% have absorption lines only, and the remaining 38% show narrow lines that do not allow detailed spectral classification (mainly because they are at high redshifts, or due to spectrum with poor signal-to-noise ratio). On the other hand, the sample considered in this study clearly indicates that optically faint (R≥ 19 mag) sub-mJy radio sources tend to be at higher redshifts, and have fainter radio fluxes, a result which confirms indications from previous work.