2mass-allsky

Extending the infrared radio correlation

April 2007 • 2007MNRAS.376.1182B

Authors • Boyle, B. J. • Cornwell, T. J. • Middelberg, E. • Norris, R. P. • Appleton, P. N. • Smail, Ian

Abstract • Co-addition of deep (rms ~ 30μJy) 20-cm data obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array at the location of Spitzer Wide Field Survey (SWIRE) sources has yielded statistics of radio source counterparts to faint 24-μm sources in stacked images with rms < 1μJy. We confirm that the infrared-radio correlation extends to f24μm = 100μJy but with a significantly lower coefficient, f20cm = 0.039f24μm [q24 = log(f24μm/f20cm) = 1.39 +/- 0.02] than hitherto reported. We postulate that this may be due to a change in the mean q24 value ratio for objects with f24μm < 1 mJy.

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