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Table 1

Spectral properties of sources in the NVSS/GB6 sample.

Flux density Steep Flat(+Inverted) Inverted
(mJy) Ntot N median αpeak σα N median αpeak σα N

 [100, 158) 3832 2662 –0.87 –0.87 0.15 1170 –0.14 –0.39 0.38 167
 [158, 251) 2068 1335 –0.87 –0.86 0.14 733 –0.11 –0.29 0.37 103
 [251, 400) 1125 657 –0.85 –0.86 0.14 468 –0.09 –0.17 0.30 61
 ≳ 400 1102 498 –0.81 –0.81 0.14 604 –0.03 –0.14 0.40 117

Notes. For each flux density range the columns indicate the total number of sources, the number of steep- and flat-spectrum (+inverted) sources, and the median values of their corresponding spectral index distributions; in the last column, the number of inverted-spectrum sources (α ≥ 0.3) is also given. αpeak and σα indicate the parameters of the best-fit truncated Gaussians for steep- and flat-spectrum sources (see Sect. 3.2).

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