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Record W4409578693 · doi:10.1093/mnras/staf622

Radio AGN selection in LoTSS DR2

2025· article· en· W4409578693 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Data Compression Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersArgonne National LaboratoryDST-NRF Centre Of Excellence In Tree Health BiotechnologyIntegrated Electronics Engineering Center, Binghamton UniversityScience and Technology Facilities CouncilOhio State UniversityObservatoire de Paris, Université de Recherche Paris Sciences et LettresSLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryNederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekInstitut sur la Nutrition et les Aliments FonctionnelsMinisterium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-WestfalenIstituto Nazionale di AstrofisicaCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueMax-Planck-GesellschaftBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungUniversity of PortsmouthUniversity of HertfordshireUniversity College LondonDeutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftUniversité d'OrléansUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryDivision of Astronomical SciencesUniversity of PennsylvaniaFinanciadora de Estudos e ProjetosUniversity of SussexU.S. Department of EnergyGauss Centre for SupercomputingUniversity of ChicagoFermilabScience Foundation IrelandNational Science Foundation
KeywordsPhysicsSelection (genetic algorithm)AstrophysicsAstronomy

Abstract

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ABSTRACT The wide-area component of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is currently the largest radio survey ever carried out, and a large fraction of the 4.5 million radio sources it contains have been optically identified with galaxies or quasars with spectroscopic or photometric redshifts. Identification of radio-luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN) from this LoTSS source catalogue is not only important from the point of view of understanding the accretion history of the universe, but also enables a wide range of other science. However, at present the vast majority of the optical identifications lack spectroscopic information or well-sampled spectral energy distributions. We show that colour and absolute magnitude information from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) allows for the robust and efficient selection of radio AGN candidates, generating a radio AGN candidate sample of around 600 000 objects with flux density $> 1.1$ mJy, spanning 144-MHz luminosities between $10^{21}$ and $10^{29}$ W Hz$^{-1}$. We use the catalogue to constrain the total sky density of radio-luminous AGN and the evolution of their luminosity function between $z=0$ and $z\approx 1$, and show that the typical mass of their host galaxies, around $10^{11} {\rm M}_\odot$, is essentially independent of radio luminosity above around $L_{144} \approx 10^{24}$ W Hz$^{-1}$. Combining with Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) data, we show that the core prominences, radio spectral indices and variability of extended sources from the sample are qualitatively consistent with the expectations from unified models. A catalogue of the radio AGN candidates is released with this paper.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.105
Threshold uncertainty score0.395

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it