The 1.266GHz MeerKAT DEEP2 component catalog

DOI

Brightness-weighted differential source counts S2n(S) spanning the eight decades of flux density between 0.25{mu}Jy and 25Jy at 1.4GHz were measured from (1) the confusion brightness distribution in the MeerKAT DEEP2 image below 10{mu}Jy, (2) counts of DEEP2 sources between 10{mu}Jy and 2.5mJy, and (3) counts of NVSS sources stronger than 2.5mJy. We present our DEEP2 catalog of 1.7x10^4^ discrete sources complete above S=10{mu}Jy over {Omega}=1.04deg^2^. The brightness-weighted counts converge as S^2^n(S){propto}S^1/2^ below S=10{mu}Jy, so >99% of the {Delta}T_b_~0.06K sky brightness produced by active galactic nuclei and ~96% of the {Delta}T_b_~0.04K added by star-forming galaxies has been resolved into sources with S>=0.25{mu}Jy. The {Delta}T_b_~0.4K excess brightness measured by ARCADE 2 cannot be produced by faint sources smaller than ~50kpc if they cluster like galaxies.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/909/193/table3 (The 1.266GHz DEEP2 component catalog)

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/909/193/table4 (DEEP2 multicomponent sources (section 5.3))

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.19090193
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/909/193
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/909/193
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/909/193
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/909/193
Provenance
Creator Matthews A.M.; Condon J.J.; Cotton W.D.; Mauch T.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2022
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Physics