Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS V2.1) Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Mauch T.
  2. Murphy T.
  3. Buttery H.J.
  4. Curran J.
  5. Hunstead R.W.,Piestrzynski B.
  6. Robertson J.G.
  7. Sadler E.M.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS) is carried out at 843MHz with the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) in its upgraded wide-field capability. The survey consists of 4.3x4.3{deg} mosaic images with 45x45''cosec{delta} resolution, covering 8000 square degrees from -30 degrees declination southwards with |b|>10{deg}. The survey resolution and sensitivity (1-sigma noise limit 1mJy) are well-matched to the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) so that together NVSS and SUMSS provide a complete survey of the radio sky. The version 2.0 (08-Aug-2007) of the catalogue consists of 210412 radio sources made by fitting elliptical gaussians in 633 SUMSS mosaics to a limiting peak brightness of 6mJy/beam at declination <-50{deg}, and 10mJy/beam at declination >-50{deg}. Positional accuracies are 1-2'' for sources with S_p_>=20mJy/beam, and are always better than 10''. The internal flux density scale is accurate to 3%. Image artefacts have been classified using a decision tree, which correctly identifies and rejects spurious sources in over 96% of cases. See the SUMSS site at http://www.astrop.physics.usyd.edu.au/sumsscat/ for details about all versions of the SUMSS, and an access to the mosaic images. The version 2.1 (from 2008-03-11) corrects a bug in 2.0 in which some bright (S>500 mJy) sources were missing from the catalogue.

Keywords
  1. Radio sources
  2. Surveys
  3. Radio continuum emission
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2003MNRAS.342.1117M
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/VIII/81B
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/81B

Access

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https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VIII/81B
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VIII/81B
IVOA Table Access TAP
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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/81B/sumss212?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/VIII/81B/sumss212?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/VIII/81B/sumss212?

History

2008-04-10T14:07:38Z
Resource record created
2008-04-10T14:07:38Z
Created
2013-07-10T15:09:53Z
Updated

Contact

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CDS support team
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