MIGHTEE: The Host-Galaxy Associated Catalogue of the Radio Sources in MIGHTEE Continuum Data Release 1

arXiv:2607.21122 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-23 · Read on arXiv

C. L. Hale, J. Hamlett, I. H. Whittam, M. J. Jarvis, M. J. Hardcastle, S. L. Jung, N. Stylianou, R. G. Varadaraj, M. Vaccari, L. Barchiesi, P. N. Best, K. K. L. Charlton, E. Malefahlo, E. Moravec, J. P. Moss, M. Rakototafika, T. F. Rarivoarinoro, F. Sinigaglia, M. N. Tudorache, S. I. Loubser, L. Heino, A. Saintonge, A. Mazumder, N. Netshiavha, D. J. B. Smith, L. Verdes-Montenegro, J. Delhaize, H. Pan, F. Pozzi, Z. Randriamanakoto, L. Stockenstroom, A. A. Vărăşteanu, E. Vardoulaki, W. L. Williams, R. A. A. Bowler, L. Marchetti, A. Matthews

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-23

Comments: 23 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Code: https://github.com/lmorabit/likelihood_ratio

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• AGN — 66× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy — 2× in this paper
• Computational Biology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Research Council — 1× in this paper
• Jansky Very Large Array — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Physics of the Accelerating Universe — 1× in this paper
• Science and Technology Facilities Council — 1× in this paper
• Star Formation Rate (SFR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
• The MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) Survey
• COSMOS Spectroscopic Redshift Compilation (First Data Release): 488k Redshifts Encompassing Two Decades of Spectroscopy
• The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey final data release: a spectroscopic sample of 35016 galaxies and AGN out to z~6.7 selected with 17.5<=i_{AB}<=24.7
• Radio selection of heavily obscured AGN in the J1030 field: unraveling a missing Compton-thick population
• MIGHTEE: The evolving radio luminosity functions of star-forming galaxies to $z\sim 4.5$ and the cosmic history of star formation
• The Spitzer Spectroscopic Data Fusion -- Merged Spectroscopic Redshift Catalogs in Spitzer Fields
• The VOICE Survey : VST Optical Imaging of the CDFS and ES1 Fields

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