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The NRAO VLA D-Array Sky Survey (NVSS)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

W. D. Cotton ,
J. J. Condon ,
Q. F. Yin ,
R. A. Perley  and
J. J. Broderick
W. D. Cotton
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory ‡ 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475, USA National Radio Astronomy Observatory Post Office Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801-0387, USA Virginia Tech s Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
J. J. Condon
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory ‡ 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475, USA National Radio Astronomy Observatory Post Office Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801-0387, USA Virginia Tech s Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Q. F. Yin
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory ‡ 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475, USA National Radio Astronomy Observatory Post Office Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801-0387, USA Virginia Tech s Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
R. A. Perley
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory ‡ 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475, USA National Radio Astronomy Observatory Post Office Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801-0387, USA Virginia Tech s Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
J. J. Broderick
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory ‡ 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475, USA National Radio Astronomy Observatory Post Office Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801-0387, USA Virginia Tech s Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

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Early large scale radio surveys of the sky were made with instruments with poor imaging quality and were limited to measuring positions and brightnesses of discrete sources. In recent decades radio interferometric arrays have dramatically increased their speed, sensitivity and ability to image the sky and several large scale radio surveys are currently being made with imaging instruments. One of these surveys is discussed in this paper.

Type
Surveys of Radio Sources
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 175: Extragalactic Radio Sources , 1996 , pp. 503 - 506
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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