The Planck-ATCA Co-eval Observations (PACO) project: the bright sample

Abstract

The Planck-ATCA Co-eval Observations (PACO) have provided flux density measurements of well defined samples of AT20G radio sources at frequencies below and overlapping with Planck frequency bands, almost simultaneously with Planck observations. We have observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) a total of 482 sources in the frequency range between 4.5 and 40 GHz in the period between July 2009 and August 2010. Several sources were observed more than once. In this paper we present the aims of the project, the selection criteria, and the observation and data reduction procedures. We also discuss the data in total intensity for a complete sample of 189 sources with S(20 GHz)>500 mJy, Galactic latitude |b|>5deg, and declination <-30deg, and some statistical analysis of the spectral behaviour and variability of this sample, referred to as the "bright PACO sample". Finally we discuss how these data could be used to transfer absolute calibrations to ground based telescopes using the CMB dipole calibrated flux densities measured by the Planck satellite, and we provide some test fluxes on bright calibrators.

15 pages, 11 figure. Accepted for publication on MNRAS. Catalogue available

References in corpus (13)

• Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Temperature Analysis
• Planck Early Results: The Planck mission
• Planck Early Results. VII. The Early Release Compact Source Catalog
• Component separation methods for the Planck mission
• Planck Early Results: Statistical properties of extragalactic radio sources in the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue
• The properties of extragalactic radio sources selected at 20 GHz
• Planck early results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources
• The Australia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G) Survey: The Bright Source Sample
• The Australia Telescope 20GHz (AT20G) Survey: analysis of the extragalactic source sample
• Planck early results XIV: ERCSC validation and extreme radio sources
• Non-blind catalogue of extragalactic point sources from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) first 3--year survey data
• Blind and non-blind source detection in WMAP 5-year maps
• Wide-Field Imaging and Polarimetry for the Biggest and Brightest in the 20GHz Southern Sky

Cited by in corpus (38)

• The Australia Telescope Compact Array Broadband Backend (CABB)
• The pre-launch Planck Sky Model: a model of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths
• Simultaneous Planck, Swift, and Fermi observations of X-ray and gamma-ray selected blazars
• Planck 2013 results. XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources
• The Tiered Radio Extragalactic Continuum Simulation (T-RECS)
• Planck Early Results: Statistical properties of extragalactic radio sources in the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue
• High--frequency predictions for number counts and spectral properties of extragalactic radio sources. New evidences of a break at mm wavelengths in spectra of bright blazar sources
• The local radio-galaxy population at 20 GHz
• Planck early results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources
• Planck early results XIV: ERCSC validation and extreme radio sources
• Planck 2015 results. XII. Full Focal Plane simulations
• The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei in the Southern Survey
• Optical Properties of High-Frequency Radio Sources from the Australia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G) Survey
• The impact of polarized extragalactic radio sources on the detection of CMB anisotropies in polarization
• The faint source population at 15.7 GHz - I. The radio properties
• The AT20G high angular resolution catalogue
• Planck intermediate results. LIV. The Planck Multi-frequency Catalogue of Non-thermal Sources
• Forecasting Polarized Radio Sources for CMB observations
• A Polarisation Survey of Bright Extragalactic AT20G Sources
• The Planck-ATCA Co-eval Observations (PACO) project: analysis of radio source properties between 5 and 217 GHz
• The Planck-ATCA Coeval Observations (PACO) project: the faint sample
• Simulated catalogs and maps of radio galaxies at millimeter wavelengths in Websky
• The Planck-ATCA Co-eval Observations (PACO) project: the spectrally-selected sample
• Disk-jet coupling changes as a possible indicator for outbursts from GX 339-4 remaining within the X-ray hard state
• The RATAN-600 multi-frequency catalogue of blazars -- BLcat
• The polarimetric multi-frequency radio sources properties
• The Simultaneous Medicina-Planck Experiment (SiMPlE): data acquisition, reduction and first results
• The radio re-brightening of the Type IIb SN 2001ig
• Investigating the nature and properties of MAXI J1810-222 with radio and X-ray observations
• VLA/JVLA Monitoring of Bright Northern Radio Sources
• ALMA Band 3 polarimetric follow-up of a complete sample of faint PACO sources
• Optical and Radio Variability of the Blazar S4 0954+658
• The Q/U Imaging Experiment: Polarization Measurements of Radio Sources at 43 and 95 GHz
• WISE Mid-Infrared Properties of compact Active Galactic Nuclei selected from the high-radio-frequency AT20G Survey
• A 20 GHz Bright Sample for Delta > 72 deg - II. Multi-frequency Follow-up
• Selecting a complete sample of blazars in sub-millimetre catalogues
• A Bayesian method for point source polarization estimation
• A FLASH on Blazars: Capturing the Radio Realm of 4FGL Blazars with SKAO Pathfinders