Deep Field Surveys - A Radio View
arXiv:astro-ph/0409197 · doi:10.1051/eas:2005147
Abstract
I present an introductory review text, focusing on recent deep field studies using radio telescopes, including high-resolution, wide-field VLBI observations. The nature of the faint radio source population is discussed, taking into account complimentary data and results that are now available via the sub-mm, IR, optical and X-ray wave-bands. New developments regarding the increased sensitivity of VLBI and an expansion in the instruments field-of-view are also presented. VLBI may be an important tool in recognising distant, obscured AGN from the ``contaminant'' star forming galaxies that now dominate lower-resolution, sub-arcsecond and arcsecond radio observations.
See http://www.jive.nl/~mag/deep_fields/garrett.ps.gz for a better version. 19 pages, 10 figures, Review presented at the JENAM-2003 Symposium, "Radio Astronomy at 70: from Karl Jansky to microjansky," Budapest, Hungary, 27-30 August 2003. To be published by EDP Sciences, eds. L. Gurvits, S. Frey, and S. Rawlings