VizieR Online Data Catalog: FIRST catalog of FR II radio galaxies (Capetti+, 2017)

We searched for FR II radio galaxies in the sample of 18,286 radio sources built by Best & Heckman (2012, Cat. J/MNRAS/421/1569; hereafter the BH12 sample) by limiting our search to the subsample of objects in which, according to these authors, the radio emission is produced by an active nucleus. They cross-matched the optical spectroscopic catalogs produced by the group from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and Johns Hopkins University (Brinchmann et al. 2004MNRAS.351.1151B; Tremonti et al. 2004ApJ...613..898T) based on data from the data release 7 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (DR7/SDSS; Abazajian et al. 2009ApJS..182..543A),1 with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Very Large Array Sky Survey (NVSS; Condon et al. 1998AJ....115.1693C, Cat. VIII/65) and the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters survey (FIRST; Becker et al. 1995ApJ...450..559B; Helfand et al. 2015ApJ...801...26H, Cat. VIII/92) adopting a radio flux density limit of 5 mJy in the NVSS. We focused on the sources with redshift z<0.15.

The majority (107) of the selected FR IIs are classified as LEG, but there are also 14 HEG and just one source that cannot be classified spectroscopically because of the lack of emission lines, namely J1446+2142.

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