Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-01-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Latex, 30 pages. Accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02540.x
We describe the selection of candidate radio-loud quasars obtained by cross-matching radio source positions from the low-frequency (151 MHz) 7C survey with optical positions from five pairs of EO POSS-I plates scanned with the Cambridge Automatic Plate-measuring Machine (APM). The sky region studied is centred at RA 10 h 28 m, Dec +41 and covers 0.057 sr. We present VLA observations of the quasar candidates, and tabulate various properties derived from the radio maps. We discuss the selection criteria of the resulting `7CQ' sample of radio-loud quasars. The 70 confirmed quasars, and some fraction of the 36 unconfirmed candidates, constitute a filtered sample with the following selection criteria: 151-MHz flux density S151 > 100 mJy; POSS-I E-plate magnitude E approx R < 20; and POSS-I colour (O - E) < 1.8; the effective area of the survey drops significantly below S151 approx 200 mJy. We argue that the colour criterion excludes few if any quasars, but note, on the basis of recent work by Willott et al. (1998b), that the E magnitude limit probably excludes more than 50 per cent of the radio-loud quasars.
Blundell Katherine
Lacy Mark
McMahon Richard
Miller Philip
Rawlings Steve
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