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Texas Survey of Radio Sources at 365 MHz

Published by High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: September 14, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-09-10
This catalog is from the Texas Survey of discrete radio sources between -35.5 degrees and +71.5 degrees declination (B1950), which was carried out at a frequency of 365 MHz (82 cm wavelength) with the Texas Interferometer during the period from 1974 to 1983. The Survey lists accurate positions with internal errors of about an arcsecond, flux densities (which for strong point sources have internal errors of about 1% and total errors of about 5%), simple structure models and indications of spectrum and variability for 66841 sources. Results of comparisons with other data show that the Survey is 90% complete at 0.4 Jy and 80% complete at 0.25 Jy, is nearly free from spurious sources, and has a lobeshift incidence which is reasonably described by quality flags associated with each source. The University of Texas Radio Astronomy Observatory (UTRAO) carried out, with the Texas Interferometer, this 365 MHz survey of the sky, which was intended to be complete to a flux density level of 0.25 Jy, to provide positions with an accuracy of about 1 arcsec in both coordinates, to give accurate flux densities and indication of source variability, and to give rough structure models for each source. The observations began in 1974 and were completed in 1983. A preliminary version of one declination strip was published (Douglas et al., Publ. Dept. Astron. Univ. Texas, No. 17, Oct. 1980), and a number of intermediate versions of the survey were privately circulated for various purposes, pending completion of the final analysis and adjustment of the data. This database was created by the HEASARC in February 2001, based on CDS/ADC catalog VIII/42. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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