Bibcode
Gonzalez-Perez, J. N.; Andernach, H.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy Papers, Abstracts, XXII IAU General Assembly, ed. H. van Woerden, p. 276; abstracts of papers for Joint Discussion 20 ``The Status of Archiving Astronomical Data'', Twin Press, Sliedrecht, The Netherlands
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1994
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Description
We have used all available radio-source surveys to construct the
continuum spectra for sources in an area of 5 by 10 degrees near the
North Ecliptic Pole (NEP), previously observed at 2.7 GHz with the
Effelsberg telescope. Most of the surveys are of similar angular
resolution (~3 to 5 arcmin) and cover a wide range of frequencies from
38 MHz to 5 GHz. We have developed a cross-identification algorithm that
takes into account the dependence of source structure on observing
frequency. This improved the number of true matches between the source
catalogues. Spectra for 229 sources with flux measurements at two or
more frequencies were constructed. For 124 of these we found data at
four or more frequencies, allowing us to classify their spectral shape.
In our rather faint sample (S_2.7GHz > 20 mJy) we find the fraction
of sources with spectral curvature to be much lower than in samples of
stronger sources previously studied by other authors. Preliminary
optical identifications are being drawn from the digitized versions of
the first Palomar Sky Survey prepared at STScI.