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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2024

The LOFAR two metre sky survey data release 2: probabilistic spectral source classifications and faint radio source demographics

A. B. Drake
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D. J. B. Smith
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M. J. Hardcastle
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P. N. Best
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R. Kondapally
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M. I. Arnaudova
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S. Das
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S. Shenoy
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K. J. Duncan
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H. J. A. Röttgering
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We present an analysis of 152 355 radio sources identified in the second data release of the LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR2) with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic redshifts in the range $0.00 z 0.57$. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we determine the reliability of each source exhibiting an excess in radio luminosity relative to that predicted from their H $\alpha$ emission, and, for a subset of 124 023 sources we combine this measurement with a full BPT analysis. Using these two independent diagnostics, we determine the reliability of each source hosting a supermassive black hole of high or low Eddington-scaled accretion rate, and combine the measurements to determine the reliability of sources belonging to each of four physical classes of objects: star-forming galaxies (SFGs), radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (RQAGN), and high- or low-excitation radio galaxies (HERGs or emission-line LERGs). The result is a catalogue that enables user-defined samples of radio sources with a reliability threshold suited to their science goal, for example prioritizing purity or completeness. Here, we select high-confidence samples of radio sources (>90 per cent reliability) to report: 38 588 radio-excess AGNs in the LoTSS-DR2 sample (362 HERGs, and 12 648 emission-line LERGs), together with 38 729 SFGs, and 18 726 RQAGN. We validate these results through comparison to literature using independent emission-line measurements, and to widely adopted WISE photometric selection techniques. While our use of SDSS spectroscopy limits our current analysis to $\sim 4$ per cent of the LoTSS-DR2 catalogue, our method is directly applicable to data from the forthcoming WEAVE-LOFAR survey, which will obtain over a million spectra of 144 MHz selected sources.
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insu-04821653 , version 1 (06-12-2024)

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A. B. Drake, D. J. B. Smith, M. J. Hardcastle, P. N. Best, R. Kondapally, et al.. The LOFAR two metre sky survey data release 2: probabilistic spectral source classifications and faint radio source demographics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024, 534, pp.1107-1126. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stae2117⟩. ⟨insu-04821653⟩
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