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A Census of the Deep Radio Sky with the VLA. I. 10 GHz Survey of the GOODS-N Field

September 2024 • 2024ApJ...972...89J

Authors • Jiménez-Andrade, Eric F. • Murphy, Eric J. • Momjian, Emmanuel • Condon, James J. • Chary, Ranga-Ram • Taylor, Russ • Dickinson, Mark

Abstract • We present the first high-resolution, high-frequency radio continuum survey that fully maps an extragalactic deep field: the 10 GHz survey of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-N) field. This is a Large Program of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) that allocated 380 hr of observations using the X-band (8–12 GHz) receivers, leading to a 10 GHz mosaic of the GOODS-N field with an average rms noise σ _n = 671 nJy beam^‑1 and angular resolution θ _1/2 = 0.″22 across 297 arcmin². To maximize the brightness sensitivity we also produce a low-resolution mosaic with θ _1/2 = 1.″0 and σ _n = 968 nJy beam^‑1, from which we derive our master catalog containing 256 radio sources detected with peak signal-to-noise ratio ≥ 5. Radio source size and flux density estimates from the high-resolution mosaic are provided in the master catalog as well. The total fraction of spurious sources in the catalog is 0.75%. Monte Carlo simulations are performed to derive completeness corrections of the catalog. We find that the 10 GHz radio source counts in the GOODS-N field agree, in general, with predictions from numerical simulations/models and expectations from 1.4 and 3 GHz radio counts. ^* https://science.nrao.edu/science/surveys/vla-x-gn/home

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