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VLA SWIRE Deep Field 20-cm Source Catalog

Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

This table contains some of the results from deep radio observations taken with the Very Large Array at a center frequency of 1400 MHz covering a region of the Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic (SWIRE) Survey of the Spitzer Legacy survey, centered at RA and Dec of 10:46:00, +59:01:00 (J2000). The reduction and cataloging of radio sources are described in the reference paper. This table comprises the catalog of the sources detected above 5 sigma. The survey presented is the deepest so far in terms of the radio source density on the sky. Perhaps surprisingly, the sources down to the bottom of the catalog appear to have median angular sizes which are still greater than 1 arcsecond, like their cousins 10-100 times stronger. The shape of the differential log N-log S counts also seems to require a correction for the finite sizes of the sources in order to be self-consistent. If the log N-log S normalization remains constant at the lowest flux densities, there are about six sources per square arcminute at 15 µJy (µJy) at 20 cm. Given the finite-source size this implies that we may reach the natural confusion limit near 1 uJy. The observations were made with the VLA in A, B, C, and D configurations for a total of almost 140 hr on-source between 2001 December and 2004 January. Since the total time is dominated by the A congiguration, the final image for analysis has a resolution of ~1.6 arcseconds. This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2010 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/136/1889/">CDS catalog J/AJ/136/1889/</a> file table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026
Publisher High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
Maintainer
Identifier ivo://nasa.heasarc/vlasdf20cm
Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
Category Astrophysics
Public Access Level public
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Homepage URL ivo://nasa.heasarc/vlasdf20cm
License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Program Code 026:000
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