Australia Telescope Hubble Deep Field-South 2.5, 5.2 and 8.7-GHz Source Catalog

Deep radio observations of a wide region centered on the Hubble Deep Field-South (HDF-S) have been performed, providing one of the most sensitive sets of radio observations acquired on the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to date. A central rms of ~ 10 &micro;Jy is reached at four frequencies (1.4, 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7 GHz). In this table, the full source catalogs from the 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7 GHz observations are presented to complement the data for the 1.4 GHz observations which were presented in Paper II (Huynh et al., 2005, AJ, 130, 1373, available at the HEASARC as the ATHDFS1P4G table) in this series, along with a detailed analysis of image quality and noise. The authors also have produced a consolidated catalog of all of their ATCA observations of the HDF-S by matching sources across all four of the frequencies in their survey (available at the HEASARC as the ATHDFSCCAT table). The details of the observations and data reduction are discussed in detail in Paper I of this series (Norris et al., 2005, AJ, 130, 1358) and summarized in Table 1 of the reference paper. The observations consist of single pointings centered on RA (J2000.0) = 22&lt;sup&gt;h&lt;/sup&gt; 33&lt;sup&gt;m&lt;/sup&gt; 25.96&lt;sup&gt;s&lt;/sup&gt;, Dec (J2000.0) = -60&lt;sup&gt;o&lt;/sup&gt; 38&#39; 09.0&quot; (2.5 GHz), and RA (J2000.0) = 22&lt;sup&gt;h&lt;/sup&gt; 32&lt;sup&gt;m&lt;/sup&gt; 56.22&lt;sup&gt;s&lt;/sup&gt;, Dec (J2000.0) = -60&lt;sup&gt;o&lt;/sup&gt; 33&#39; 02.7&quot; (5.2 and 8.7 GHz). The 5.2 and 8.7 GHz observations are centered on the HST WFPC field, while the 2.5 GHz observations were pointed halfway between the WFPC field and a bright confusing source to allow the bright source to be well cleaned from the 2.5 GHz image. At 5 sigma, the 5.2 and 8.7 GHz catalogs have over 96% reliability. At 2.5 GHz, the authors have enough statistics to examine the 5 - 5.5 sigma sources, and find that these are only about 40% reliable. With a SNR greater than 5.5 sigma, the 2.5 GHz catalog would have about 99% reliability. The authors thus cut off the catalogs at 5.5, 5, and 5 sigma for 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7 GHz, respectively. The final catalogs have 71, 24, and 6 sources at 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7 GHz, respectively. Given a prior 1.4 GHz position, it may be feasible to push the detection limit lower than 5 sigma. The authors searched for low-SNR sources by matching 3 - 5 sigma sources that lie within 2 sigma positional uncertainty of a 1.4 GHz source. The positional uncertainty was determined by adding the average 1.4 GHz uncertainty (1.1&quot;) in quadrature with the positional uncertainty of a 3 sigma source. At 2.5 GHz the allowed positional offset is 3.8&quot;, and for 5.2 and 8.7 GHz it is 2.8&quot;. Thus, there are 71, 18, and 2 sources at 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7 GHz, respectively, which are low-SNR high-frequency counterparts to 1.4 GHz sources. The authors included these sources in supplementary catalogs. This HEASARC table contains all 101 primary sources detected at 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7 GHz, as well as the 91 supplementary sources described above (the latter are flagged by having source_flag values of &#39;S&#39;), for a grand total of 192 radio sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2012 based on the &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/130/1371"&gt;CDS Catalog J/AJ/130/1371&lt;/a&gt; files table47.dat, table58.dat and table68.dat, which contain the entire contents of Tables 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 from the published paper. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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