Westerbork Northern Sky Survey Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors

1. Rengelink et al.

Published by

NASA/GSFC HEASARC

Abstract

      The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS) is a low-frequency radio survey that covers the whole sky north of declination +30 degrees at a wavelength of 92 cm to a limiting flux density of approximately 18 milliJanskies (mJy) at the 5 sigma level. WENSS is a collaboration between the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (NFRA/ASTRON) and the Leiden Observatory. The major personnel involved in WENSS include Ger de Bruyn, George Miley, Roeland Rengelink, Yuan Tang, Malcolm Bremer, Huub Rottgering, Ernst Raimond, Martin Bremer, and David Fullagar. The version of the WENSS Catalog as implemented at the HEASARC is a union of two separate catalogs obtained from the WENSS Website: the WENSS Polar Catalog (18186 sources above +72 degrees declination) and the WENSS Main Catalog (211234 sources in the declination region from +28 to +76 degrees). This database table was created by the HEASARC in February 2001 based on the tables wenssn10.cat (WENSS Main Catalog) and wenssp10.cat (WENSS Polar Catalog) obtained from the WENSS web site at <a href="http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/">http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
    

Keywords

1. Survey Source

Bibliographic source

1997A&AS..124..259R

See also HTML

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/wenss.html

IVOA Identifier IVOID

ivo://nasa.heasarc/wenss

Document Object Identifer DOI

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS

For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=wenss&

IVOA Table Access TAP

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).

Web browser access HTML

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_wenss&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1