2024MNRAS.535.1406W

This paper presents a 610 MHz radio survey covering 1.94 deg$^2$ around the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP), which includes parts of the ${\it AKARI}$ (ADF-N) and Euclid, Deep Fields North. The median 5$\sigma$ sensitivity is 28 $\mu$Jy beam$^{-1}$, reaching as low as 19 $\mu$Jy beam$^{-1}$, with a synthesized beam of 3.6 arcsec $\times$ 4.1 arcsec. The catalogue contains 1675 radio components, with 339 grouped into multicomponent sources and 284 'isolated' components likely part of double radio sources. Imaging, cataloguing, and source identification are presented, along with preliminary scientific results. From a non-statistical sub-set of 169 objects with multiwavelength AKARI and other detections, luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) represent 66 ${{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of the sample, ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) 4 ${{\ \rm per\ cent}}$, and sources with L$_{IR}$ < 10$^{11}$ $\mathrm{ L}_{\odot }\,$ 30${{\ \rm per\ cent}}$. In total, 56 ${{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of sources show some AGN presence, though only seven are AGN-dominated. ULIRGs require three times higher AGN contribution to produce high-quality SED fits compared to lower luminosity galaxies, and AGN presence increases with AGN fraction. The PAH mass fraction is not significant, although ULIRGs have about half the PAH strength of lower IR-luminosity galaxies. Higher luminosity galaxies show gas and stellar masses an order of magnitude larger, suggesting higher star formation rates. For LIRGs, AGN presence increases with redshift, indicating that part of the total luminosity could be contributed by AGN activity rather than star formation. Simple cross-matching revealed 13 ROSAT QSOs, 45 X-ray sources, and 61 sub-mm galaxies coincident with GMRT radio sources.