PEARLS: JWST Counterparts of Micro-Jy Radio Sources in the NEP Time Domain Field. II. All Four Spokes
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| author | Willner, S. P. Gim, Hansung B. Polletta, Maria del Carmen Bowling, Gibson B. Cohen, Seth H. Estrada-Carpenter, Vicente Koekemoer, Anton M. O'Brien, Rosalia Pigarelli, Alex Willmer, Christopher N. A. Windhorst, Rogier A. Jansen, Rolf A. Ortiz III, Rafael Summers, Jake Cotton, William Civano, Francesca Grogin, Norman A. Maksym, W. P. Saikia, Payaswini Silver, Ross M. Zhao, Xiurui |
| author_facet | Willner, S. P. Gim, Hansung B. Polletta, Maria del Carmen Bowling, Gibson B. Cohen, Seth H. Estrada-Carpenter, Vicente Koekemoer, Anton M. O'Brien, Rosalia Pigarelli, Alex Willmer, Christopher N. A. Windhorst, Rogier A. Jansen, Rolf A. Ortiz III, Rafael Summers, Jake Cotton, William Civano, Francesca Grogin, Norman A. Maksym, W. P. Saikia, Payaswini Silver, Ross M. Zhao, Xiurui |
| contents | JWST/NIRCam observations in the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (TDF) identify 4.4 micron counterparts for 206 of 211 radio sources with S(3 GHz) \gapprox 5 micro-Jy in a 65arcmin^2 field. One of the remaining radio sources is likely to be a radio lobe of a nearby Seyfert galaxy, and the four radio sources without counterparts could be spurious. All but five counterparts are brighter than magnitude 23.5 AB at 4.4 micron. A simple position match with radius 0.3 arcsec would have identified 198 of the counterparts but only in a 4.4 micron catalog created with aggressive deblending of multiple peaks within an object's brightness distribution into distinct catalog sources. The properties of the radio-host galaxies are mostly consistent with those found in Paper 1: the median redshift is 1.14, and the radio emission, calculated taking into account the non-linear dependence of radio luminosity on star-formation rate, is consistent with a star formation origin in ~79% of the sample. For the other ~21%, the radio flux could come from star formation hidden behind dust or from an active galactic nucleus. One difference from other studies of radio-source counterparts is that 66% of the radio hosts show at least one indication of an AGN's presence. The presence of AGN and of hidden star formation could be elucidated by monitoring for source variability, and the TDF is the field most suited to such observations. |
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| spellingShingle | PEARLS: JWST Counterparts of Micro-Jy Radio Sources in the NEP Time Domain Field. II. All Four Spokes Willner, S. P. Gim, Hansung B. Polletta, Maria del Carmen Bowling, Gibson B. Cohen, Seth H. Estrada-Carpenter, Vicente Koekemoer, Anton M. O'Brien, Rosalia Pigarelli, Alex Willmer, Christopher N. A. Windhorst, Rogier A. Jansen, Rolf A. Ortiz III, Rafael Summers, Jake Cotton, William Civano, Francesca Grogin, Norman A. Maksym, W. P. Saikia, Payaswini Silver, Ross M. Zhao, Xiurui Astrophysics of Galaxies JWST/NIRCam observations in the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (TDF) identify 4.4 micron counterparts for 206 of 211 radio sources with S(3 GHz) \gapprox 5 micro-Jy in a 65arcmin^2 field. One of the remaining radio sources is likely to be a radio lobe of a nearby Seyfert galaxy, and the four radio sources without counterparts could be spurious. All but five counterparts are brighter than magnitude 23.5 AB at 4.4 micron. A simple position match with radius 0.3 arcsec would have identified 198 of the counterparts but only in a 4.4 micron catalog created with aggressive deblending of multiple peaks within an object's brightness distribution into distinct catalog sources. The properties of the radio-host galaxies are mostly consistent with those found in Paper 1: the median redshift is 1.14, and the radio emission, calculated taking into account the non-linear dependence of radio luminosity on star-formation rate, is consistent with a star formation origin in ~79% of the sample. For the other ~21%, the radio flux could come from star formation hidden behind dust or from an active galactic nucleus. One difference from other studies of radio-source counterparts is that 66% of the radio hosts show at least one indication of an AGN's presence. The presence of AGN and of hidden star formation could be elucidated by monitoring for source variability, and the TDF is the field most suited to such observations. |
| title | PEARLS: JWST Counterparts of Micro-Jy Radio Sources in the NEP Time Domain Field. II. All Four Spokes |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17040 |