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1999AJ....117.1578Bock+
Home-page: http://www.astrop.physics.usyd.edu.au/SUMSS
Version: Preliminary, not finished
SUMSS: A Wide-Field Radio Imaging Survey of the Southern
Sky. I. Science Goals, Survey Design, and Instrumentation
Bock, D. C.-J.; Large, M. I.; Sadler, Elaine M.
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 117, Issue 3, pp.1578-1593.03/1999
The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope, operating at 843 MHz with a 5
deg^2 field of view, is carrying out a radio imaging survey of the sky south
of declination -30 deg. This survey (the Sydney University Molonglo Sky
Survey, or SUMSS) produces images with a resolution of 43"x43" csc|delta| and
an rms noise level of ~1 mJy beam^-1. The SUMSS is therefore similar in
sensitivity and resolution to the northern NRAO VLA Sky Survey. The survey is
progressing at a rate of about 1000 deg^2 per year, yielding individual and
statistical data for many thousands of weak radio sources. This paper
describes the main characteristics of the survey and presents sample images
from the first year of observations.
New version 2.0 contains 210412 sources. See also
MGPS2 Galactic plane survey.