The Serendipitous H-ATLAS-fields Observations of Radio Extragalactic Sources (SHORES) is a multiple pencil beam survey that observed
at 2.1 GHz 29 fields of the Herschel-ATLAS Southern Galactic Field
with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA)
in total intensity and polarization.
The Serendipitous H-ATLAS-fields Observations of Radio Extragalactic Sources (SHORES) is a targeted, multi–pencil-beam radio continuum survey of the Herschel-ATLAS Southern Galactic Pole (SGP) field, carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. SHORES provides 2.1 GHz imaging in total intensity and polarization for 29 H-ATLAS fields, selected to deliver homogeneous radio coverage of regions containing rare, far-IR/sub-mm bright galaxies, including candidate strongly lensed systems.
SHORES was designed to link the far-IR selection of H-ATLAS, sensitive to dust-obscured star formation and luminous IR galaxies, to radio diagnostics of star formation and AGN activity, in a regime where dust-unbiased radio emission can be combined with multi-wavelength information to constrain physical processes. The survey strategy adopts a pencil-beam approach, enabling deep, well-characterised radio imaging on multiple independent pointings while maintaining uniform reduction and source extraction across the dataset.
The survey comprises two complementary tiers. The shallow fields provide broad coverage across many H-ATLAS-selected targets at 2.1 GHz, enabling population studies and statistical characterisation of radio counterparts. The deep fields push to fainter radio flux densities and include additional multi-frequency information (ATCA sub-bands and high-frequency follow-up where available), allowing spectral-shape analyses and improved separation of emission components. SHORES data products include calibrated mosaics, noise maps, source catalogues with reliability/completeness characterisation, and value-added tables incorporating multi-frequency measurements and cross-matches to major radio surveys.
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