VII/282 T-RECS. Tiered Radio Extragalactic Continuum Simulation (Bonaldi+, 2018)
The Tiered Radio Extragalactic Continuum Simulation (T-RECS).
Bonaldi A., Bonato M., Galluzzi V., Harrison I., Massardi M., Kay S.,
De Zotti G., Brown M.L.
<Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 482, 2-19 (2019)>
=2019MNRAS.482....2B 2019MNRAS.482....2B
=2018yCat.7282....0B 2018yCat.7282....0B
ADC_Keywords: Models ; Radio continuum ; Active gal. nuclei ;
Star Forming Region
Keywords: radio continuum: galaxies -
galaxies: luminosity function, mass function -
large-scale structure of Universe
Abstract:
We present the Tiered Radio Extragalactic Continuum Simulation
(T-RECS): a new simulation of the radio sky in continuum, over the
150MHz-20GHz range. T-RECS models two main populations of radio
galaxies: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and Star-Forming Galaxies
(SFGs), and corresponding sub-populations, following Bonato et al.
(2017). Our model also includes polarised emission over the full
frequency range, which has been characterised statistically for each
population using the available in- formation (e.g., Hales et al.,
2014MNRAS.440.3113H 2014MNRAS.440.3113H; Galluzzi et al. 2018MNRAS.475.1306G 2018MNRAS.475.1306G; Sun & Reich
2012A&A...543A.127S 2012A&A...543A.127S). We model the clustering properties in terms of
probability distributions of hosting halo masses, and use lightcones
extracted from a high-resolution cosmological simulation to determine
the positions of haloes. This limits the sky area for the simulations
including clustering to a 25deg2 field of view. We compare
luminosity functions, number counts in total intensity and
polarization, and clustering properties of our outputs to the most
recent compilation of data and find a very good agreement. We deliver
a set of simulated catalogues, as well as the code to produce them,
which we believe will be very useful for simulating observations and
predicting results from deep radio surveys with existing and
forthcoming radio facilities, such as the Square Kilometre Array
(SKA).
Description:
AGN and SFG catalogs,
"deep" tier (1 square degrees, 1nJy flux limit imposed at 1.4GHz),
"medium" tier (25 square degrees, 10 nJy flux limit imposed at 1.4GHz)
and "wide" tier (400 square degrees, 100nJy flux limit imposed at 1.4GHz).
The description of the models and the simulation is in the paper.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
agnsdeep.dat 583 66933 *AGN deep catalog, V2
agnsmedi.dat 583 1461510 *AGN medium catalog, V2
agnswide.dat 583 8554650 *AGN wide catalog, V2
sfgsdeep.dat 474 3753476 *SFG deep catalog, V2
sfgsmedi.dat 474 28263241 *SFG medium catalog, V2
sfgswide1.dat 474 4418708 *SFG wide catalog, V2
sfgswide2.dat 474 15902776 SFG wide catalog, V2
sfgswide3.dat 474 36628222 SFG wide catalog, V2
sfgswide4.dat 474 58449510 SFG wide catalog, V2
sfgswide5.dat 474 26536044 SFG wide catalog, V2
sfgswide6.dat 474 5716897 SFG wide catalog, V2
sfgswide7.dat 474 660385 SFG wide catalog, V2
sfgswide8.dat 474 431990 SFG wide catalog, V2
sfgswide9.dat 474 310417 SFG wide catalog, V2
sfgswide10.dat 474 99448 SFG wide catalog, V2
fits/* . 15 fits version of the catalogs
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Note on agnsdeep.dat, sfgsdeep.dat: Simulated radio continuum extragalactic
emission, 1 square degrees, 1nJy flux limit imposed at 1.4GHz.
Note on agnsmedi.dat, sfgsmedi.dat : Simulated radio continuum extragalactic
emission, 25 square degrees, 10nJy flux limit imposed at 1.4GHz.
Note on agnswide.dat, sfgswide1.dat : Simulated radio continuum extragalactic
emission, 400 square degrees, 100nJy flux limit imposed at 1.4GHz.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: agnsdeep.dat agnsmedi.dat agnswide.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 7 F7.4 [mW/m2/Hz] Lum1400 Luminosity at 1.4GHz (log(erg/s/Hz))
9- 20 F12.6 mJy I150 Total intensity flux density at 150MHz
22- 33 F12.6 mJy I160 Total intensity flux density at 160MHz
35- 46 F12.6 mJy I220 Total intensity flux density at 220MHz
48- 59 F12.6 mJy I300 Total intensity flux density at 300MHz
61- 72 F12.6 mJy I410 Total intensity flux density at 410MHz
74- 85 F12.6 mJy I560 Total intensity flux density at 560MHz
87- 98 F12.6 mJy I780 Total intensity flux density at 780MHz
100-111 F12.6 mJy I1000 Total intensity flux density at 1GHz
113-124 F12.6 mJy I1400 Total intensity flux density at 1.4GHz
126-137 F12.6 mJy I1900 Total intensity flux density at 1.9GHz
139-150 F12.6 mJy I2700 Total intensity flux density at 2.7GHz
152-163 F12.6 mJy I3000 Total intensity flux density at 3GHz
165-176 F12.6 mJy I3600 Total intensity flux density at 3.6GHz
178-189 F12.6 mJy I5000 Total intensity flux density at 5GHz
191-202 F12.6 mJy I6700 Total intensity flux density at 6.7GHz
204-215 F12.6 mJy I9200 Total intensity flux density at 9.2GHz
217-228 F12.6 mJy I12500 Total intensity flux density at 12.5GHz
230-241 F12.6 mJy I20000 Total intensity flux density at 20GHz
243-253 F11.6 mJy P150 Polarised intensity flux density at 150MHz
255-265 F11.6 mJy P160 Polarised intensity flux density at 160MHz
267-277 F11.6 mJy P220 Polarised intensity flux density at 220MHz
279-289 F11.6 mJy P300 Polarised intensity flux density at 300MHz
291-301 F11.6 mJy P410 Polarised intensity flux density at 410MHz
303-313 F11.6 mJy P560 Polarised intensity flux density at 560MHz
315-325 F11.6 mJy P780 Polarised intensity flux density at 780MHz
327-337 F11.6 mJy P1000 Polarised intensity flux density at 1GHz
339-349 F11.6 mJy P1400 Polarised intensity flux density at 1.4GHz
351-361 F11.6 mJy P1900 Polarised intensity flux density at 1.9GHz
363-373 F11.6 mJy P2700 Polarised intensity flux density at 2.7GHz
375-385 F11.6 mJy P3000 Polarised intensity flux density at 3GHz
387-397 F11.6 mJy P3600 Polarised intensity flux density at 3.6GHz
399-409 F11.6 mJy P5000 Polarised intensity flux density at 5GHz
411-421 F11.6 mJy P6700 Polarised intensity flux density at 6.7GHz
423-433 F11.6 mJy P9200 Polarised intensity flux density at 9.2GHz
435-445 F11.6 mJy P12500 Polarised intensity flux density at 12.5GHz
447-457 F11.6 mJy P20000 Polarised intensity flux density at 20GHz
459-465 F7.4 [Msun] logMh Dark halo mass
467-476 F10.6 deg xcoord Euclidian longitude coordinate
478-487 F10.6 deg ycoord Euclidian latitude coordinate
489-498 F10.6 deg GLAT Latitude (spherical coordinate)
500-509 F10.6 deg GLON [] Longitude (spherical coordinate)
511-518 F8.6 --- z Redshift
520-536 F17.10 kpc physSize Physical size of the core+jet emission
538-552 F15.10 deg angle Angle between the jet and the line-of-sight
554-571 F18.10 arcsec Size Projected size of the core+jet emission
573-581 F9.7 --- Rs Rs parameter (Faranoff & Ryley)
for FRI/FRII classification
583 I1 --- PopFlag [4/6] Population flag (G1)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: sfgsdeep.dat sfgsmedi.dat sfgswide*.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 9 F9.6 [Msun/yr] logSFR Log Star formation rate
11- 20 F10.6 mJy I150 Total intensity flux density at 150MHz
22- 31 F10.6 mJy I160 Total intensity flux density at 160MHz
33- 42 F10.6 mJy I220 Total intensity flux density at 220MHz
44- 53 F10.6 mJy I300 Total intensity flux density at 300MHz
55- 64 F10.6 mJy I410 Total intensity flux density at 410MHz
66- 75 F10.6 mJy I560 Total intensity flux density at 560MHz
77- 86 F10.6 mJy I780 Total intensity flux density at 780MHz
88- 97 F10.6 mJy I1000 Total intensity flux density at 1GHz
99-108 F10.6 mJy I1400 Total intensity flux density at 1.4GHz
110-119 F10.6 mJy I1900 Total intensity flux density at 1.9GHz
121-130 F10.6 mJy I2700 Total intensity flux density at 2.7GHz
132-141 F10.6 mJy I3000 Total intensity flux density at 3GHz
143-152 F10.6 mJy I3600 Total intensity flux density at 3.6GHz
154-163 F10.6 mJy I5000 Total intensity flux density at 5GHz
165-174 F10.6 mJy I6700 Total intensity flux density at 6.7GHz
176-185 F10.6 mJy I9200 Total intensity flux density at 9.2GHz
187-196 F10.6 mJy I12500 Total intensity flux density at 12.5GHz
198-207 F10.6 mJy I20000 Total intensity flux density at 20GHz
209-216 F8.6 mJy P150 Polarised intensity flux density at 150MHz
218-225 F8.6 mJy P160 Polarised intensity flux density at 160MHz
227-234 F8.6 mJy P220 Polarised intensity flux density at 220MHz
236-243 F8.6 mJy P300 Polarised intensity flux density at 300MHz
245-252 F8.6 mJy P410 Polarised intensity flux density at 410MHz
254-261 F8.6 mJy P560 Polarised intensity flux density at 560MHz
263-270 F8.6 mJy P780 Polarised intensity flux density at 780MHz
272-279 F8.6 mJy P1000 Polarised intensity flux density at 1GHz
281-288 F8.6 mJy P1400 Polarised intensity flux density at 1.4GHz
290-297 F8.6 mJy P1900 Polarised intensity flux density at 1.9GHz
299-306 F8.6 mJy P2700 Polarised intensity flux density at 2.7GHz
308-315 F8.6 mJy P3000 Polarised intensity flux density at 3GHz
317-324 F8.6 mJy P3600 Polarised intensity flux density at 3.6GHz
326-333 F8.6 mJy P5000 Polarised intensity flux density at 5GHz
335-342 F8.6 mJy P6700 Polarised intensity flux density at 6.7GHz
344-351 F8.6 mJy P9200 Polarised intensity flux density at 9.2GHz
353-360 F8.6 mJy P12500 Polarised intensity flux density at 12.5GHz
362-369 F8.6 mJy P20000 Polarised intensity flux density at 20GHz
371-378 F8.5 [Msun] logMh Dark halo mass
380-389 F10.6 deg xcoord Euclidian longitude coordinate
391-400 F10.6 deg ycoord Euclidian latitude coordinate
402-411 F10.6 deg GLAT Latitude (spherical coordinate)
413-422 F10.6 deg GLON [0/360] Longitude (spherical coordinate)
424-431 F8.6 --- z Redshift
433-450 F18.10 arcsec Size Projected apparent size of the disc
452-461 F10.7 --- e1 First ellipticity component
463-472 F10.7 --- e2 Second ellipticity component
474 I1 --- PopFlag [1/3] Population flag (G1)
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Global notes:
Note (G1): Population flag as follows:
1 = UVgal
2 = spheroids
3 = lensed spheroids
4 = FSRQ
5 = BL Lac
6 = SS-AGN
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Acknowledgements:
Anna Bonaldi, A.Bonaldi(at)skatelescope.org
History:
* 27-Jul-2018: on-line version
* 04-Nov-2019: update version
(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 27-Jul-2018