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Fan-beam Observations of Bright Galaxies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
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A survey has been made of 139 bright southern galaxies using the 1´.5 X 4° fan beam of the E-W arm of the Mills cross. These represent a largely complete sample of galaxies down to a limiting total optical magnitude of ~11.0 when corrected for Galactic absorption by 0.35 cosec β and for internal absorption due to the tilt of the emitting galaxy. Of these, 54 were detected down to a limiting radio flux of 0.4 f.u., at which level the probability of a misidentification is 10%. No a priori distinctions were made between the galaxies on the basis of strong radio emission or optical peculiarities.
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , February 1968 , pp. 102 - 104
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1968
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