1.4GHz NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Condon J.J.
  2. Cotton W.D.
  3. Greisen E.W.
  4. Yin Q.F.
  5. Perley R.A.,Taylor G.B.
  6. Broderick J.J.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) is a radio continuum survey covering the sky north of -40{deg} declination at 1.4GHz. The principal data products of the NVSS are a set of 2326 4x4{deg} continuum "cubes" with three planes containing Stokes I, Q, and U images, plus a catalog of almost 2 million discrete sources stronger than a flux density of about 2.5mJy. The images all have 45 arcsecond FWHM angular resolution and nearly uniform sensitivity. Their rms brightness fluctuations are approximately 0.45mJy/beam=0.14K (Stokes I) and 0.29mJy/beam=0.09K (Stokes Q and U). The rms uncertainties in right ascension and declination vary from <= ~1arcsecond for the 400,000 sources stronger than 15mJy to 7arcseconds at the survey limit. A more detailed description is provided in the printed paper and at the NVSS website at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/ where all data products, user software, and updates were released as soon as they were produced and verified.

Keywords
  1. Radio sources
  2. Radio continuum emission
  3. Surveys
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1998AJ....115.1693C
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/VIII/65
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/65

Access

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http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VIII/65
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VIII/65
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VIII/65
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/VIII/65/nvss?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/VIII/65/nvss?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/VIII/65/nvss?

History

2007-12-13T15:45:38Z
Resource record created
2007-12-13T15:04:27Z
Updated
2007-12-13T15:45:38Z
Created

Contact

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CDS support team
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CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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