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A Survey of 526 Southern Flat-spectrum Radio Sources with the Parkes—Tidbinbilla Interferometer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R.A. Duncan
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
G.L. White
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
R. Wark
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
J.E. Reynolds
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
D.L. Jauncey
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
R.P. Norris
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
L. Taaffe
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
A. Savage
Affiliation:
Anglo-Australian Observatory, Private Bag, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357

Abstract

We have measured the 2.3 GHz total and correlated flux densities on a baseline of 275 km of all sources in the Parkes catalogue which

  1. (i) are south of declination +10°,

  2. (ii) have a catalogued 2.7 GHz total flux density exceeding 0.5 Jy, and

  3. (iii) have a 2.7/5.0 GHz spectral index flatter than −0.5.

More than 14% of the sample showed visibility amplitudes greater than 0.9, and more than 72% showed visibility amplitudes greater than 0.5. Of the sources with optical or other identifications 79% were quasars. In this paper we briefly summarise the results of this survey.

Type
Instruments and Basic Astronomy
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1993

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