The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey IV. First Data Release: Photometric redshifts and rest-frame magnitudes

Abstract

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz survey of the Northern sky. The LoTSS First Data Release (DR1) presents 424 square degrees of radio continuum observations over the HETDEX Spring Field (10h45m00s $<$ right ascension $<$ 15h30m00s and 45${}^{\circ }$00${}^{\prime }$00${}^{\prime }$ $<$ declination $<$ 57${}^{\circ }$00${}^{\prime }$00${}^{\prime \prime }$) with a median sensitivity of 71$\mu$Jy/beam and a resolution of 6${}^{\prime \prime }$. In this paper we present photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) for 94.4% of optical sources over this region that are detected in the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) 3$\pi$ steradian survey. Combining the Pan-STARRS optical data with mid-infrared photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, we estimate photo-$z$s using a novel hybrid photometric redshift methodology optimised to produce the best possible performance for the diverse sample of radio continuum selected sources. For the radio-continuum detected population, we find an overall scatter in the photo-$z$ of 3.9% and an outlier fraction ($\left|z_{\mathrm{phot}}-z_{\mathrm{spec}}\right|/(1+z_{\mathrm{spec}})>0.15$) of 7.9%. We also find that, at a given redshift, there is no strong trend in photo-$z$ quality as a function of radio luminosity. However there are strong trends as a function of redshift for a given radio luminosity, a result of selection effects in the spectroscopic sample and/or intrinsic evolution within the radio source population. Additionally, for the sample of sources in the LoTSS First Data Release with optical counterparts, we present rest-frame optical and mid-infrared magnitudes based on template fits to the consensus photometric (or spectroscopic when available) redshift.

arXiv comment16 figures, 1 table and 18 pages. This paper is part of the LOFAR surveys Data Release 1 and has been accepted for publication in a special edition of A&A that will appear in Feb 2019, Volume 622. The catalogues and images from the data release will be publicly available at http://www.lofar-surveys.org upon publication of the volume

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