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The Parkes-MIT-NRAO Radio Surveys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Alan E. Wright
Affiliation:
Parkes Observatory, Australia Telescope National Facility PO Box 276, Parkes, NSW, 2870, Australia Macquarie University and the Australia Telescope National Facility PO Box 276, Parkes, NSW, 2870, Australia UK Schmidt Telescope Unit Private Bag, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia Macquarie University, Dept Physics & Mathematics, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia
Niven J. Tasker
Affiliation:
Parkes Observatory, Australia Telescope National Facility PO Box 276, Parkes, NSW, 2870, Australia Macquarie University and the Australia Telescope National Facility PO Box 276, Parkes, NSW, 2870, Australia UK Schmidt Telescope Unit Private Bag, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia Macquarie University, Dept Physics & Mathematics, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia
Ann Savage
Affiliation:
Parkes Observatory, Australia Telescope National Facility PO Box 276, Parkes, NSW, 2870, Australia Macquarie University and the Australia Telescope National Facility PO Box 276, Parkes, NSW, 2870, Australia UK Schmidt Telescope Unit Private Bag, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia Macquarie University, Dept Physics & Mathematics, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia
Alan E. Vaughan
Affiliation:
Parkes Observatory, Australia Telescope National Facility PO Box 276, Parkes, NSW, 2870, Australia Macquarie University and the Australia Telescope National Facility PO Box 276, Parkes, NSW, 2870, Australia UK Schmidt Telescope Unit Private Bag, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia Macquarie University, Dept Physics & Mathematics, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia

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During 1990, the Parkes radio telescope made a new, deep survey of the southern sky at 4850 MHz (the PMN Survey: see e.g. Griffith and Wright, 1993; Wright et al., 1994). The declination coverage of the survey was from δ = −87° to +10°. The flux limit of the survey was around 30 mJy, although dependent on declination. This survey increased the number of known, southern radio sources by a factor of about 6 to over 65,000.

Type
Surveys of Radio Sources
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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