학술논문
The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey I: Design and First Results
Document Type
Working Paper
Author
McConnell, D.; Hale, C. L.; Lenc, E.; Banfield, J. K.; Heald, George; Hotan, A. W.; Leung, James K.; Moss, Vanessa A.; Murphy, Tara; O'Brien, Andrew; Pritchard, Joshua; Raja, Wasim; Sadler, Elaine M.; Stewart, Adam; Thomson, Alec J. M.; Whiting, M.; Allison, James R.; Amy, S. W.; Anderson, C.; Ball, Lewis; Bannister, Keith W.; Bell, Martin; Bock, Douglas C. -J.; Bolton, Russ; Bunton, J. D.; Chippendale, A. P.; Collier, J. D.; Cooray, F. R.; Cornwell, T. J.; Diamond, P. J.; Edwards, P. G.; Gupta, N.; Hayman, Douglas B.; Heywood, Ian; Jackson, C. A.; Koribalski, Bärbel S.; Lee-Waddell, Karen; McClure-Griffiths, N. M.; Ng, Alan; Norris, Ray P.; Phillips, Chris; Reynolds, John E.; Roxby, Daniel N.; Schinckel, Antony E. T.; Shields, Matt; Tremblay, Chenoa; Tzioumis, A.; Voronkov, M. A.; Westmeier, Tobias
Source
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 37, 2020, E048
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Abstract
The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) is the first large-area survey to be conducted with the full 36-antenna Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. RACS will provide a shallow model of the ASKAP sky that will aid the calibration of future deep ASKAP surveys. RACS will cover the whole sky visible from the ASKAP site in Western Australia, and will cover the full ASKAP band of $700-1800$ MHz. The RACS images are generally deeper than the existing NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS) radio surveys and have better spatial resolution. All RACS survey products will be public, including radio images (with $\sim 15$ arcsecond resolution) and catalogues of about three million source components with spectral index and polarisation information. In this paper, we present a description of the RACS survey and the first data release of 903 images covering the sky south of declination $+41^\circ$ made over a 288 MHz band centred at 887.5 MHz.
Comment: 24 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables. For associated data see https://data.csiro.au/collections/domain/casdaObservation/results/PRAS110%20-%20The%20Rapid%20ASKAP%20Continuum
Comment: 24 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables. For associated data see https://data.csiro.au/collections/domain/casdaObservation/results/PRAS110%20-%20The%20Rapid%20ASKAP%20Continuum