A Study of Quasar Radio Emission from the VLA FIRST Survey
arXiv:astro-ph/9906408 · doi:10.1086/301046
Abstract
Using the most recent (1998) version of the VLA FIRST survey radio catalog, we have searched for radio emission from 1704 quasars taken from the most recent (1993) version of the Hewitt and Burbidge quasar catalog. These quasars lie in the ~5000 square degrees of sky already covered by the VLA FIRST survey. Our work has resulted in positive detection of radio emission from 389 quasars of which 69 quasars have been detected for the first time at radio wavelengths. We find no evidence of correlation between optical and radio luminosities for optically selected quasars. We find indications of a bimodal distribution of radio luminosity, even at a low flux limit of 1 mJy. We show that radio luminosity is a good discriminant between radio loud and radio quiet quasar populations, and that it may be inappropriate to make such a division on the basis of the radio to optical luminosity ratio. We discuss the dependence of the radio loud fraction on optical luminosity and redshift.
33 pages LaTeX, 10 figures, 2 tables. Accepted in the Astronomical Journal
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