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Deep 1.4 GHz counts show an upturn below a few milliJansky (mJy), corresponding to a more rapid increase in the number of faint sources. This change of slope is thought to be due to the emergence of a new population of radio sources, which does not show up at higher flux densities. Today we know that the faint radio population is a mixture of different classes of objects (AGNs, star-forming galaxies, normal ellipticals and spirals), but the relative fractions are still uncertain and very little is known about the luminosity properties and the redshift distribution of such sources. Understanding whether the dominant triggering process is star formation or nuclear activity has important implications on the study of the star-formation/black-hole-accretion history with radio-selected samples.
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Prandoni, I. et al. Probing the Faint Radio Population Through Multi-Wavelength Information. In: Renzini, A., Bender, R. (eds) Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10995020_102
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