Using Deep Radio and Optical Surveys to find Z > 6 Candidates

Details Using Deep Radio and Optical Surveys to find Z > 6 Candidates Using Deep Radio and Optical Surveys to find Z > 6 Candidates

Dec 1997

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American Astronomical Society, 191st AAS Meeting, #63.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1309

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We have recently completed several deep surveys using the VLA at 8 GHz with one sigma sensitivities ranging from 1.5 mu Jy to 5 mu Jy. These surveys are capable of detecting radio galaxies with luminsoity in excess of the break in the RLF, P_* ~ 10(25) W/Hz, out to z = 10 if they exist and thus are well suited for studying AGN formation and evolution. Follow-up optical work has identified more than 90% of these microjy radio sources, primarily with luminous star-forming galaxies and low-luminosity AGN (--23 < M_B<--21). Suprisingly, these microjy radio sources have approximately the same median redshift (z ~ 0.8) as the 3C identifications, although that sample reached almost one million times less sensitive flux denisty limits. A few radio sources remain unidentified down to the best optical limits available. In particular, one radio source located in the HDF has no optical counterpart to the detection limit of R ~ 29. We discuss the possibility that this source is a very young AGN, possibly at z > 6, and thus obscured by the Lyman break at optical wavelengths. If our hypothesis is corect, then the host should be detectable in a reasonable integration with NICMOS.

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