The K-z diagram of FIRST radio sources identified in the Boötes and Cetus fields

This paper presents the Hubble diagram (K-z relation) for FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at 20 cm) radio sources identified in the Boötes and Cetus fields. The correlation between the K magnitude of the FIRST-NDWFS sample and the photometric redshifts found to be linear. The dispersion about the best fit line is given by 1.53 for the whole sample and 0.75 at z > 1. The paper also presents a composite K-z diagram of FIRST radio sources and low-frequency selected radio samples with progressively fainter flux-density limits (3CRR, 6C, 7CRS and the EIS-NVSS sample). The majority of FIRST radio sources lie fainter than the no evolution curve (3 L_* galaxies) probably highlighting the fact that the galaxy luminosity is correlated with the radio power (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)