Near Infrared and Radio Observations of Distant Galaxies

This paper is concerned with the distant radio galaxies in a sample of bright sources selected at 178 MHz by Laing, Riley & Longair (1982). This sample is 96% complete for sources with θ 20, using the VIA at a wavelength of 6 cm (Laing, Owen & Puschell, in preparation), in order to search for radio cores. We have so far located cores in 16/23 sources and set 5σ upper limits of 0.6 mJy for the remainder. None of the cores had been detected previously. In all cases, the cores coincide with optical objects, although one source (3C 340) had been misidentified. Several ambiguities have now been resolved.