EoR Foregrounds: the Faint Extragalactic Radio Sky
Abstract
A wealth of new data from upgraded and new radio interferometers are rapidly improving and transforming our understanding of the faint extra-galactic radio sky. Indeed the mounting statistics at sub-mJy and μJy flux levels is finally allowing us to get stringent observational constraints on the faint radio population and on the modeling of its various components. In this paper I will provide a brief overview of the latest results in areas that are potentially important for an accurate treatment of extra-galactic foregrounds in experiments designed to probe the Epoch of Reionization.
- Publication:
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Peering towards Cosmic Dawn
- Pub Date:
- May 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392131800073X
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1806.10886
- Bibcode:
- 2018IAUS..333..175P
- Keywords:
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- surveys;
- radio continuum: galaxies;
- galaxies: evolution;
- galaxies: active;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 2 figures. Invited review at IAU Symposium No. 333 "Peering towards Cosmic Dawn". This submission includes updated figures wrt the version published in the proceedings volume (where an error in the plotting routine produced wrong labels for the y- and x-axis)