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J/AJ/119/2801       8.35 and 14.35 GHz flux at Galactic plane (Langston+, 2000)
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The first galactic plane survey at 8.35 and 14.35 GHz.
    Langston G., Minter A., D'Addario L., Eberhardt K., Koski K., Zuber J.
   <Astron. J. 119, 2801 (2000)>
   =2000AJ....119.2801L
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ADC_Keywords: Galactic plane ; Radio continuum ; Radio lines
Keywords: Galaxy: center - Galaxy: structure - H II regions - radio continuum -
          supernova remnants

Abstract:
    We present the first images of the Galactic plane (GP; |b|<5{deg},
    -15{deg}<l<255{deg}) at 8.35 and 14.35 GHz. These observations used the
    National Radio Astronomy Observatory-NASA Green Bank Earth Station to
    survey the sky simultaneously at these frequencies. These are the
    first results from the GP survey observations, a program to monitor
    the sky at 8.35 and 14.35 GHz. The GP survey series is intended to
    detect short-lived radio sources. We present four independent
    observations of the Galactic plane, combined to provide a set of
    reference images of the Galactic plane. The first survey, GPA, covers
    0.82 sr (6.5%) of the sky. A source list is presented for all sources
    brighter than 0.9 Jy at 8.35 GHz and also for all sources brighter than
    2.5 Jy at 14.35 GHz. The FITS format images, residual images, source
    lists, and archive data are available over the Internet. Later papers
    will present the results of the variable source search.

File Summary:
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 FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe            80        .   This file
s8.dat            79      555   Detections at  8.35 GHz (3.6cm) from Table3
s14.dat           79      365   Detections at 14.35 GHz (2.1cm) from Table3
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See also:
  II/56           : 100{mu}m survey of the Galactic Plane (Hoffmann+ 1971)
  VII/60          : Source Counts in the Galactic Plane (Kawara+, 1982)
  VII/114         : Massachusetts-Stony Brook GP CO Survey. II. (Clemens+, 1986)
  VIII/20         : Catalog of 5 GHz Galactic Plane Sources (Haynes+ 1979)
  J/ApJS/91/347   : A 5-GHz VLA Survey of the Galactic Plane (Becker+ 1994)
  J/A+AS/35/23    : Survey of the Galactic Plane at 4.875 GHz (Altenhoff+ 1979)
  J/MNRAS/201/495 : HI Survey of Southern Galactic Plane (Strong+ 1982)
  J/A+AS/83/539   : GP 21cm radio continuum survey. I. (Reich+ 1990)
  J/A+AS/126/413  : GP 21cm radio continuum survey. II. (Reich+ 1997)
  J/A+AS/85/805   : GP 11cm radio continuum survey. IV. (Fuerst+ 1990)
  J/A+AS/122/201  : ROSAT Galactic Plane Survey observations (Motch+ 1997)
  J/A+AS/132/341  : ROSAT GPS optical identification (Motch+ 1998)
  J/AJ/96/1655    : Galactic plane VLA survey (Garwood+ 1988)
  J/AJ/110/268    : Red and infrared polarimetry in GP (Creese+ 1995)
  J/ApJS/68/715   : Clark Lake 30.9MHz GP survey (Kassim, 1988)
  J/ApJS/107/239  : 327 MHz survey of the galactic plane (Taylor+ 1996)
  J/MNRAS/294/607 : 7C(G) 151MHz survey of the Galactic plane (Vessey+ 1998)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: s8.dat s14.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1- 11  A11   ---   [LMD2000b]  Source designation (based on galactic
                                    position, common to both tables)
  13- 14  I2    h       RAh       right ascension (J2000.0)
  16- 17  I2    min     RAm       right ascension (J2000.0)
  19- 22  F4.1  s       RAs       right ascension (J2000.0)
      24  A1    ---     DE-       declination sign (J2000.0)
  25- 26  I2    deg     DEd       declination (J2000.0)
  28- 29  I2    arcmin  DEm       declination (J2000.0)
  31- 32  I2    arcsec  DEs       declination (J2000.0)
  34- 39  F6.2  Jy      Sp        Peak flux density
  41- 46  F6.2  Jy      Sint      Integrated flux density
  48- 51  F4.1  arcmin  MajDiam   Major axis source size
  53- 56  F4.1  arcmin  MinDiam   ? Minor axis source size
  58- 60  I3    deg     PA        ? Position angle (1)
  62- 67  F6.3  ---     Sp+Index  ? Spectral index (d(log S)/d(log{nu}))
  69- 79  A11   ---     Name      Common source name
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Note (1): East to North
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History:
    From electronic version
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(End)   James Marcout,  Patricia Bauer, Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]    31-Aug-2000

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