A COMPLETE SAMPLE OF RADIO-SOURCES IN THE NORTH ECLIPTIC CAP, SELECTED AT 38 MHZ .1. THE RADIO DATA

Using the 38-MHz 8C survey by Rees, we have constructed a complete sample of 57 radio sources to a flux density limit Of S38 = 1.3 Jy within 3.03-degrees of the North Ecliptic Pole. This is the lowest frequency at which such a sample has been defined. All of the members of the sample have been mapped at arcmin resolution with the CLFST, and at arcsec resolution with either the VLA or the Ryle Telescope. Radio structures, high-frequency spectral indices and angular sizes of this 8C sample are broadly similar to those of the brighter 151-MHz 6C sample by Eales, indicating that distant (z > 0.5) radio-luminous FRII sources continue to dominate the steep-spectrum source population at flux densities just below the peak of the radio source counts. Small differences in radio properties between the 8C and 6C samples can be explained by their different selection frequencies, and in particular by the loss of physically small sources with spectral turnovers in the ultra-low frequency selected sample.