Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-02-06
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 319 (2000) 429
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Latex, 18 pages, 8 figures; MNRAS, accepted. The paper, with higher quality figures, may also be obtained from http://www.ast.
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03934.x
We present the data and analysis of VLBI observations at 1.6, 5 and 15 GHz of a sample of faint Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources selected from the Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS). The 5 GHz observations involved a global array of 16 stations and yielded data on the total sample of 47 sources. A subsample of 26 GPS sources with peak frequencies > 5 GHz and/or peak flux densities > 125 mJy was observed with the VLBA at 15 GHz. A second subsample of 29 sources, with peak frequencies <5 GHz, was observed at 1.6 GHz using a 14 station global VLBI array. In this way, 44 of the 47 sources (94%) in the sample were observed above and at or below their spectral peak. Spectral decomposition allowed us to identify 3, 11, 7, and 2 objects as compact symmetric objects, compact doubles, core-jet and complex sources respectively. However, many of the sources classified as compact double or core-jet sources show only two components making their classification rather tentative. This may explain why the strong morphological dichotomy of GPS quasars and galaxies found for radio-bright GPS sources, is not as clear in this faint sample.
Langevelde Huib-Jan van
Schilizzi Richard
Snellen Ignas
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