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Table 4.
Expected number of high-z AGN in the three 1.4 GHz continuum surveys planned with SKAO.
| SKA high-z predictions | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survey | Area | Sensitivity (5σ) | z > 3 | z > 6 | z > 10 | ||||||
| #AGN | #CTK | log Lbol | #AGN | #CTK | log Lbol | #AGN | #CTK | log Lbol | |||
| Ultra-Deep | 1 | 0.25 | 1870 | 831 | 43.8 | 34 | 15 | 44.4 | 2 | 1 | 44.8 |
| Deep | 20 | 1 | 13 780 | 6120 | 44.4 | 220 | 98 | 44.9 | 6 | 3 | 45.6 |
| Wide | 1000 | 5 | 182 000 | 81 000 | 45.1 | 1980 | 880 | 45.4 | 35 | 16 | 46.6 |
Notes. Area and sensitivities of the three tiers are reported in unit of deg2 and μJy, respectively. The values of log Lbol refer to the median values in the simulated samples described in Sect. 4.4.
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