Exploring AGN Activity over cosmic time with the SKA

In this Chapter we present the motivation for undertaking both a wide and deep survey with the SKA in the context of studying AGN activity across cosmic time. With an rms down to 1 µJy/beam at 1 GHz over 1,000 - 5,000 deg2 in 1 year (wide tier band 1/2) and an rms down to 200 nJy/beam over 10 - 30 d...

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Main Authors: Smolcic, V., Padovani, P., Delhaize, J., Prandoni, I., Seymour, Nick, Jarvis, M., Afonso, J., Magliocchett, M., Huynh, I., Vaccari, M., Karim, A.
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Published: SPIE - Internatioal Society for Optocal Engineering 2014
Online Access:http://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/215/069/AASKA14_069.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32315
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author Smolcic, V.
Padovani, P.
Delhaize, J.
Prandoni, I.
Seymour, Nick
Jarvis, M.
Afonso, J.
Magliocchett, M.
Huynh, I.
Vaccari, M.
Karim, A.
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Padovani, P.
Delhaize, J.
Prandoni, I.
Seymour, Nick
Jarvis, M.
Afonso, J.
Magliocchett, M.
Huynh, I.
Vaccari, M.
Karim, A.
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description In this Chapter we present the motivation for undertaking both a wide and deep survey with the SKA in the context of studying AGN activity across cosmic time. With an rms down to 1 µJy/beam at 1 GHz over 1,000 - 5,000 deg2 in 1 year (wide tier band 1/2) and an rms down to 200 nJy/beam over 10 - 30 deg2 in 2000 hours (deep tier band 1/2), these surveys will directly detect faint radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN (down to a 1 GHz radio luminosity of about 2×1023 W/Hz at z = 6). For the first time, this will enable us to conduct detailed studies of the cosmic evolution of radio AGN activity to the cosmic dawn (z ? 6), covering all environmental densities.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-323152017-01-30T13:30:17Z Exploring AGN Activity over cosmic time with the SKA Smolcic, V. Padovani, P. Delhaize, J. Prandoni, I. Seymour, Nick Jarvis, M. Afonso, J. Magliocchett, M. Huynh, I. Vaccari, M. Karim, A. In this Chapter we present the motivation for undertaking both a wide and deep survey with the SKA in the context of studying AGN activity across cosmic time. With an rms down to 1 µJy/beam at 1 GHz over 1,000 - 5,000 deg2 in 1 year (wide tier band 1/2) and an rms down to 200 nJy/beam over 10 - 30 deg2 in 2000 hours (deep tier band 1/2), these surveys will directly detect faint radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN (down to a 1 GHz radio luminosity of about 2×1023 W/Hz at z = 6). For the first time, this will enable us to conduct detailed studies of the cosmic evolution of radio AGN activity to the cosmic dawn (z ? 6), covering all environmental densities. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32315 http://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/215/069/AASKA14_069.pdf SPIE - Internatioal Society for Optocal Engineering fulltext
spellingShingle Smolcic, V.
Padovani, P.
Delhaize, J.
Prandoni, I.
Seymour, Nick
Jarvis, M.
Afonso, J.
Magliocchett, M.
Huynh, I.
Vaccari, M.
Karim, A.
Exploring AGN Activity over cosmic time with the SKA
title Exploring AGN Activity over cosmic time with the SKA
title_full Exploring AGN Activity over cosmic time with the SKA
title_fullStr Exploring AGN Activity over cosmic time with the SKA
title_full_unstemmed Exploring AGN Activity over cosmic time with the SKA
title_short Exploring AGN Activity over cosmic time with the SKA
title_sort exploring agn activity over cosmic time with the ska
url http://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/215/069/AASKA14_069.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32315