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A Quick Look at the 3 GHz Radio Sky. I. Source Statistics from the Very Large Array Sky Survey
Ist Teil von
The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, 2021-08, Vol.255 (2), p.30
Ort / Verlag
Saskatoon: The American Astronomical Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Quelle
Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Abstract
The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is observing the entire sky north of −40° in the
S
band (2 GHz <
ν
< 4 GHz), with the highest angular resolution (2.″5) of any all-sky radio continuum survey to date. VLASS will cover its entire footprint over three distinct epochs, the first of which has now been observed in full. Based on
Quick Look
images from this first epoch, we have created a catalog of 1.9 × 10
6
reliably detected radio components. Due to the limitations of the
Quick Look
images, component flux densities are underestimated by ∼15% at
S
peak
> 3 mJy beam
−1
and are often unreliable for fainter components. We use this catalog to perform statistical analyses of the
ν
∼ 3 GHz radio sky. Comparisons with the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) survey show the typical 1.4–3 GHz spectral index,
α
, to be ∼−0.71. The radio color–color distribution of point and extended components is explored by matching with FIRST and the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey. We present the VLASS source counts,
dN
/
dS
, which are found to be consistent with previous observations at 1.4 and 3 GHz. Resolution improvements over FIRST result in excess power in the VLASS two-point correlation function at angular scales ≲7″, and in 18% of active galactic nuclei associated with a single FIRST component being split into multicomponent sources by VLASS.