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The Parkes-MIT-NRAO Southern Sky Survey at 4850 MHz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

M. Griffith
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
A. E. Wright
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
A. J. Hunt
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
E. Troup
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
R. D. Ekers
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
P. Buckett
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
D. J. Cooke
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
G. Freeman
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
J. Glowacki
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
D. Jennings
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
U. Knop
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
B. Lam
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
I. McGovern
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
D. McConnell
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
R. P. Norris
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
R. Otrupcek
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
R. Twardy
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
T. Williams
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
G. Behrens
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Greenbank, USA
C. Chestnut
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Greenbank, USA
B. F. Burke
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
A. Fletcher
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
K. S. Russell
Affiliation:
UK Schmidt Telescope, Anglo-Australian Observatory, Coonabarabran NSW 2357
A. Savage
Affiliation:
UK Schmidt Telescope, Anglo-Australian Observatory, Coonabarabran NSW 2357
J. Lim
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, Macquarie University, North Ryde NSW 2113
A. E. Vaughan
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, Macquarie University, North Ryde NSW 2113
S. Côté
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Private Bag Weston ACT 2611
M. Anderson
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood NSW 2747
A. Hons
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood NSW 2747
G. L. White
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood NSW 2747
S. Amy
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
A. Burgess
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
S. Chan
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
L. Cram
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
A. Gray
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
W. Walsh
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
D. Campbell-Wilson
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
V. McIntyre
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2500
P. Randall
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2500
M. Suters
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2500
W. J. Zealey
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2500

Abstract

During 1990 we surveyed the southern sky using a multi-beam receiver at frequencies of 4850 and 843 MHz. The half-power beamwidths were 4 and 25 arcmin respectively. The finished surveys cover the declination range between +10 and −90 degrees declination, essentially complete in right ascension, an area of 7.30 steradians. Preliminary analysis of the 4850 MHz data indicates that we will achieve a five sigma flux density limit of about 30 mJy. We estimate that we will find between 80 000 and 90 000 new sources above this limit. This is a revised version of the paper presented at the Regional Meeting by the first four authors; the surveys now have been completed.

Type
Extragalactic
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1991

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