MIGHTEE: total intensity radio continuum imaging and the COSMOS/XMM-LSS Early Science fields
| العنوان: | MIGHTEE: total intensity radio continuum imaging and the COSMOS/XMM-LSS Early Science fields |
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| المؤلفون: | K. Knowles, Matt J. Jarvis, Martin J. Hardcastle, Mario G. Santos, S. M. Randriamampandry, Matthew Prescott, Oleg Smirnov, I. Heywood, Fatemeh Tabatabaei, B. S. Frank, I. Prandoni, Kshitij Thorat, C. L. Hale, Jose Afonso, B. Hugo, I. H. Whittam, J. S. Kenyon, A. R. Taylor, Hertzog L. Bester, Jordan D. Collier, Natasha Maddox, Cyril Tasse, Srikrishna Sekhar, Eric J. Murphy, Roger Deane, Philip Best |
| المصدر: | Heywood, I, Jarvis, M J, Hale, C L, Whittam, I H, Bester, H L, Hugo, B, Kenyon, J S, Prescott, M, Smirnov, O M, Tasse, C, Afonso, J M, Best, P N, Collier, J D, Deane, R P, Frank, B S, Hardcastle, M J, Knowles, K, Maddox, N, Murphy, E J, Prandoni, I, Randriamampandry, S M, Santos, M G, Sekhar, S, Tabatabaei, F, Taylor, A R & Thorat, K 2022, ' MIGHTEE: total intensity radio continuum imaging and the COSMOS / XMM-LSS Early Science fields ', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 509, no. 2, pp. 2150-2168 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3021 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics, Continuum (measurement), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, radio continuum, Intensity (physics), surveys, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), interferometric, galaxies, techniques, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) |
| الوصف: | MIGHTEE is a galaxy evolution survey using simultaneous radio continuum, spectro-polarimetry, and spectral line observations from the South African MeerKAT telescope. When complete, the survey will image $\sim$20 deg$^{2}$ over the COSMOS, E-CDFS, ELAIS-S1, and XMM-LSS extragalactic deep fields with a central frequency of 1284 MHz. These were selected based on the extensive multiwavelength datasets from numerous existing and forthcoming observational campaigns. Here we describe and validate the data processing strategy for the total intensity continuum aspect of MIGHTEE, using a single deep pointing in COSMOS (1.6 deg$^{2}$) and a three-pointing mosaic in XMM-LSS (3.5 deg$^{2}$). The processing includes the correction of direction-dependent effects, and results in thermal noise levels below 2~$\mathrm{\mu}$Jy beam$^{-1}$ in both fields, limited in the central regions by classical confusion at $\sim$8$''$ angular resolution, and meeting the survey specifications. We also produce images at $\sim$5$''$ resolution that are $\sim$3 times shallower. The resulting image products form the basis of the Early Science continuum data release for MIGHTEE. From these images we extract catalogues containing 9,896 and 20,274 radio components in COSMOS and XMM-LSS respectively. We also process a close-packed mosaic of 14 additional pointings in COSMOS and use these in conjunction with the Early Science pointing to investigate methods for primary beam correction of broadband radio images, an analysis that is of relevance to all full-band MeerKAT continuum observations, and wide field interferometric imaging in general. A public release of the MIGHTEE Early Science continuum data products accompanies this article. Comment: 21 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables, to be published in MNRAS |
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| تدمد: | 1365-2966 0035-8711 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::277ddaf303d82191b75b72489c958701 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3021 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....277ddaf303d82191b75b72489c958701 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 13652966 00358711 |
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