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First Results from the VLA FIRST Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

R.H. Becker
Affiliation:
IGPP, LLNL, L-413 Livermore, CA 94551-9900 Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street NY, NY 10027 STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 IoA, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, U.K.
M.D. Gregg
Affiliation:
IGPP, LLNL, L-413 Livermore, CA 94551-9900 Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street NY, NY 10027 STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 IoA, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, U.K.
D.J. Helfand
Affiliation:
IGPP, LLNL, L-413 Livermore, CA 94551-9900 Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street NY, NY 10027 STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 IoA, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, U.K.
C.M. Cress
Affiliation:
IGPP, LLNL, L-413 Livermore, CA 94551-9900 Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street NY, NY 10027 STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 IoA, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, U.K.
R. Mcmahon
Affiliation:
IGPP, LLNL, L-413 Livermore, CA 94551-9900 Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street NY, NY 10027 STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 IoA, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, U.K.
R.L. White
Affiliation:
IGPP, LLNL, L-413 Livermore, CA 94551-9900 Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street NY, NY 10027 STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 IoA, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, U.K.

Abstract

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The VLA FIRST survey is now in its second year. We have completed mapping over 1500 deg2 of the North Galactic Cap and present here the catalog of the 138,000 radio sources detected therein. We discuss the statistics of this new catalog including the two-point angular correlation function for all radio emitters, present our optical identification of 24,000 sources using the APM catalog, and report followup studies on radio variability, X-ray source identification, and our bright quasar sample.

Type
Surveys of Radio Sources
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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