Involved people at OAB: de Ruiter.
The whole
square degree region of the ESO Slice Project was
observed at 20 cm with
the Australia Telescope Compact Array, using the mosaicing technique
(Prandoni, de Ruiter et al. 2000, Papers I and II accepted by A&A). The
resulting radio catalogue (ATESP) contains about 3000 radio sources down to a
20 cm flux limit of
mJy. The radio data are now being used for
various purposes: i) determining the radio properties of ESP galaxies
(e.g. radio luminosity function of various types of galaxies), ii) deep radio
source counts and optical identification of ATESP sources, iii) detailed optical
studies of smaller selected areas: at present a sample of almost 70 objects,
complete down to
has been observed at ESO, and spectroscopic data are
available for all objects. It is planned to extend the spectroscopy to
much fainter magnitudes in the near future, using the VLT.