High-frequency radio observations of the Kuehr sample and the epoch-dependent luminosity function of the flat-spectrum quasars

Details High-frequency radio observations of the Kuehr sample and the epoch-dependent luminosity function of the flat-spectrum quasars High-frequency radio observations of the Kuehr sample and the epoch-dependent luminosity function of the flat-spectrum quasars

2005-09-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509580v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted on A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053797

We discuss our ATCA 18.5 and 22 GHz flux density measurements of the Southern extragalactic sources in the complete 5-GHz sample of Kuehr et al. (1981). The high-frequency (5-18.5 GHz) spectral indices of steep-spectrum sources for which we have 18.5-GHz data (66% of the complete sample) are systematically steeper than the low-frequency (2.7-5 GHz) ones, and there is evidence of an anti-correlation of high-frequency spectral index with luminosity. The completeness of the 18.5-GHz data is much higher (89%) for flat-spectrum sources (mostly quasars), which also exhibit a spectral steepening. Taking advantage of the almost complete redshift information on flat-spectrum quasars, we have estimated their 5-GHz luminosity function in several redshift bins. The results confirm that their radio luminosity density peaks at z_peak \simeq 2.5 but do not provide evidence for deviations from pure luminosity evolution as hinted at by other data sets. A comparison of our 22-GHz flux density with WMAP K-band data for flat-spectrum sources suggests that WMAP flux densities may be low by a median factor of \simeq 1.2. The extrapolations of 5-GHz counts and luminosity functions of flat-spectrum radio quasars using the observed distribution of the 5-18.5 GHz spectral indices match those derived directly from WMAP data, indicating that the high-frequency WMAP survey does not detect any large population of FSRQs with anomalous spectra.

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