Optical spectroscopy of radio galaxies in the 7C Redshift Survey
ArXiv astro-ph/0205507 (2002)
Authors:
Chris J Willott, Steve Rawlings, Katherine M Blundell, Mark Lacy, Gary J Hill, Susan E Scott
Abstract:
We present optical spectroscopy of all 49 radio galaxies in the 7C-I and
7C-II regions of the 7C Redshift Survey (7CRS). The low-frequency (151 MHz)
selected 7CRS sample contains all sources with flux-densities S_151 > 0.5 Jy in
three regions of the sky; 7C-I and 7C-II were chosen to overlap with the 5C6
and 5C7 surveys respectively, and cover a total sky area of 0.013 sr. The
sample has been completely identified and spectroscopy of the quasars and
broad-lined radio galaxies has been presented in Willott et al. (1998). Only
seven of the radio galaxies do not have redshift determinations from the
spectroscopy, giving a redshift completeness for the sample of >90%. The median
redshift of the 7CRS is 1.1. We present a composite 0.2