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An Updated Multi-Wavelength Radio and Optical Catalog of Quasars and Radio Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2014

Amy E. Kimball
Affiliation:
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping NSW, 1710, Australia email: [email protected]
Željko Ivezić
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle WA 98195-1580, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We present a catalog of millions of radio sources, created by consolidating large-area radio and optical surveys GB6 (6cm), FIRST (20cm), NVSS (20cm), WENSS (92cm), VLSS (4m), and SDSS DR9 (optical). The region where all surveys overlap covers 3269 deg2 in the North Galactic Cap, and contains >160,000 20-cm sources, with about 12,000 detected in all five radio surveys and over one-third detected optically. Combining parameters from the sky surveys allows easy and efficient classification by radio and optical morphology and radio spectral index. The catalog is available at http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Amy.Kimball/radiocat.shtml.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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