Modeling the faint radio population: the nanoJy radio sky

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2004-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407499v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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2 pages, 1 figure. To appear in "Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century", proceedings o

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The apparent change in the composition of the parent optical objects of radio sources around 1 mJy (at 1.4 GHz) is now well established, although there is still some debate about the relative importance of classical radio galaxies and star-forming galaxies at sub-mJy levels (see e.g. Gruppioni et al. 1999; Prandoni et al. 2001b). It is clear, however, that at microJy levels star-forming galaxies are dominant (see Fomalont et al. 1997; Haarsma et al. 2000). Does this mean that SKA will basically tell us more about the history of star formation than about the space density (and its cosmological evolution) of active galactic nuclei? Using current best estimates of luminosity functions (and their evolution) of various classes of objects, we show that the increasing dominance of star-forming galaxies below 1 mJy is a natural consequence of the different luminosity functions, but that this does not at all mean that star-forming galaxies do necessarily dominate at all sub-mJy flux levels and all redshifts.

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