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The Starburst­AGN Connection ASP Conference Series, Vol. 408, c 2009 Weimin Wang, Zhaoqing Yang, Zhijian Luo, and Zhu Chen, eds.

Cosmic Evolution of Radio Sources in ATLAS
Minnie Y. Mao,1
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Ray P. Norris,2 Rob Sharp,3 and Jim E. J. Lovell1

School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 37, Hobart, 7001, Australia
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CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW, 1710, Australia
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Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW, 1710, Australia
Abstract. The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS), which is the widest deep field radio survey so far attempted, aims to probe the evolution of radio galaxies out to the edge of the Universe. Using AAOmega on the AngloAustralian Telescope we have successfully obtained spectroscopic redshifts for 395 of the ATLAS radio galaxies. Coupled with 169 redshifts from the existing literature, we now have 564 spectroscopic redshifts for ATLAS sources.

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Intro duction

The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) aims to image approximately seven square degrees of sky to 10 µJy at 1.4 GHz, in two separate fields: Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) and European Large Area ISO Survey-South 1 (ELAIS-S1). These fields were chosen to coincide with the Spitzer Wide-Area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) Survey program (Lonsdale et al. 2003) so that corresponding optical and infrared photometric data are available. CDFS also encompasses the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) field (Giavalisco et al. 2004). While ATLAS radio observations are only partially complete (the current rms noise is 20 - 30 µJy), the first catalogues have been published (Norris et al. 2006; Middelberg et al. 2008) yielding unexpected and interesting results (Norris, Middelberg, & Boyle 2007). There are currently 2000 radio sources detected in the ATLAS fields but we expect to obtain a sample of 10000 at the completion of ATLAS. The main goals of ATLAS are to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies as a function of cosmic time and determine the evolutionary relationship between AGNs and star-forming galaxies (SFGs) (Norris et al. 2006). In order to do this we require distances to the radio sources, which in turn requires optical spectroscopy. Spectroscopy also yields line ratios which can differentiate between SFGs and AGN (Baldwin, Phillips, & Terlevich 1981), and between different classes of AGN (Veilleux & Osterbrock 1987; Kewley et al. 2006; Randall et al. 2009). Photometric redshifts are unsuitable for this as ATLAS sources frequently differ from the standard templates used for photometric fits. 2. Sp ectroscopic Data

ATLAS sources were observed using the AAOmega spectrograph (Sharp et al. 2006) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). The observations were under380


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taken in both standard multi-ob ject spectroscopy (MOS) mode and nod+shuffle mode from December 1 to December 8, 2007. The sources were split into bright (R < 21.5), intermediate (21.5 < R < 23) and nod+shuffle (R > 21.5 but undetected in "intermediate") magnitude bins. We only obtained 22 hours of data because of poor weather thus we only partially completed the intermediate and nod+shuffle observations for CDFS and only observed the bright ELAIS sources.
Table 1. Spectroscopic redshifts available for ATLAS sources. gives the name of the ATLAS field. Column 2 gives the total ATLAS sources while Columns 3 and 4 give the number of sp redshifts obtained from the AAT and the literature respectively. gives the total number of available spectroscopic redshifts. Field CDFS ELAIS Total Total No. AAT 728 143 1276 252 2004 395 Literature 118 51 169 Column 1 number of ectroscopic Column 5

Total with zsp 261 303 564

We also observed a sample of non-radio sources from the CDFS field chosen on the basis that their 24 µm fluxes deviate from the radio-far-infrared correlation and are therefore unlikely to be star-forming galaxies. Norris et al. (2009) have shown that these sources are probably obscured radio-quiet AGN. 3. Results

Our AAT observations yielded a total of 395 new spectroscopic redshifts for the ATLAS sources and 489 new spectroscopic redshifts for the 24 µm sources. Coupled with redshifts from the literature there are now 564 ATLAS sources with spectroscopic redshifts, summarized in Table 1. Table 2 shows the detection rates for both the ATLAS radio sources and the 24 µm sources. Figure 1 plots the redshift distribution for the ATLAS sources in CDFS. The relatively larger number of QSOs at z > 1 is most likely due to selection effects such as Malmquist Bias. Furthermore, the greater number of detected emission line spectra may be due to emission lines being easier to identify in low signal-to-noise data than absorption lines. 4. Discussion and Conclusions

Currently we have spectroscopic redshifts for over a quarter of all ATLAS sources. In order to obtain a more complete redshift catalogue it is necessary to obtain time on larger telescopes such as Gemini so that we may probe the fainter sources and hence understand the incompleteness at fainter magnitudes. The detection rate for the 24 µm sources was significantly higher than for the ATLAS radio sources, suggesting they have stronger emission lines, although their selection implies that they are more likely to be AGN, which generally have weaker emission lines and a lower redshift detection rate. Understanding this paradox is likely to have significant implications for our understanding of early galaxy evolution. It is only through studies like ATLAS that we may build up a comprehensive picture of the cosmic evolution of radio galaxies.


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Table 2. Success rates for the Dec 2007 AAOmega observations. Column 1 gives the name of the field while Columns 2, 3 and 4 show the successful redshift detection rate for all targeted sources, the ATLAS radio sources and the 24 µm sources respectively. Field CDFS bright CDFS intermediate CDFS N+S ATLAS + 24 µm ATLAS 63% 42% 60% 22% 30% 15% 24 µm 94% 76% 37%

Figure 1. Histogram of spectroscopic redshifts plotted logarithmically for CDFS. The different line styles represent the different types of spectra (emission, absorption or QSO). Redshift data for the 143 sources shown in this plot were taken from AAOmega observations in December 2007 (Mao et al. 2009). References Baldwin J. A., Phillips M. M., Terlevich R. 1981, PASP, 93, 5 Giavalisco M., et al. 2004, ApJ, 600, L93 Kewley L. J., Groves B., Kauffmann G., Heckman T. 2006, MNRAS, 372, 961 Lonsdale C. J., et al. 2003, PASP, 115, 897 Mao M., et al. 2009, in preparation Middelberg E., et al. 2008, AJ, 135, 1276 Norris R. P., et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 2409 Norris R. P., Middelberg E., Boyle B. J. 2007, ASPC, 380, 229


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