Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-06-28
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
22 pages, latex, 4 figures. To appear in Astrophysical Journal. Replaced paper contains a revised value for the the spatial co
Scientific paper
10.1086/178122
The FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters) survey now covers 1550 square degrees of sky where $07^{h}16 < \alpha < 17^{h}40$ and $28^{\circ}.3 < \delta < 42^{\circ}$. This yields a catalog of 138,665 sources above the survey threshold of 1 mJy, about one third of which are in double-lobed and multi-component sources. We have used these data to obtain the first high-significance measurement of the two-point angular correlation for a deep radio sample. We find that the correlation function between $0.02^{\circ}$ and $2^{\circ}$ is well fitted by a power law of the form $A\theta^{\gamma}$ where $A\approx 3\times 10^{-3}$ and $\gamma\approx -1.1$. On small scales ($\theta<0.2^{\circ}$), double and multi-component sources are shown to have a larger clustering amplitude than that of the whole sample. Sources with flux densities below 2 mJy are found to have a shallower slope than that obtained for the whole sample, consistent with there being a significant contribution from starbursting galaxies at these faint fluxes. The cross-correlation of radio sources and Abell clusters is determined. A preliminary approach to inferring spatial information is outlined.
Becker Robert H.
Cress Catherine M.
Gregg Michael D.
Helfand David J.
White Richard L.
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