A new sample of southern radio galaxies: Host galaxy masses and
  star-formation rates
  In this study we define a new sample of distant powerful radio galaxies in
order to study their host-galaxy properties and provide targets for future
observations of HI absorption with new radio telescopes and to understand the
fuelling and feedback from such sources. We have cross-matched the Sydney
University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS) radio catalogue at 843 MHz with the
VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS) near-infrared catalogue using the Likelihood
Ratio technique. Photometric redshifts from the Dark Energy Survey are then
used to assign redshifts to the radio source counterparts. We found a total of
249 radio sources with photometric redshifts over a 148 deg^2 region. By
fitting the optical and near-infrared photometry with spectral synthesis models
we determine the stellar mass and star-formation rates of the radio sources,
finding typical stellar masses of 10^{11} - 10^{12}M$_{\odot}$ for the powerful
high-redshift radio galaxies. We also find a population of low-mass blue
galaxies. However, by comparing the derived star-formation rates to the radio
luminosity, we suggest that these sources are false positives in our likelihood
ratio analysis. Follow up, higher-resolution (<5 arcsec) radio imaging would
help alleviate these mid-identifications, as the limiting factor in our
cross-identifications is the low resolution (~45 arcsec) of the SUMSS radio
imaging.
