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Description
This table contains results from the first full release of a survey of the 150-MHz radio sky, observed with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) between April 2010 and March 2012 as part of the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS) project. Aimed at producing a reliable compact source survey, the authors' automated data-reduction pipeline efficiently processed more than 2000 hours of observations with minimal human interaction. Through application of innovative techniques such as image-based flagging, direction-dependent calibration of ionospheric phase errors, correcting for systematic offsets in antenna pointing, and improving the primary beam model, the authors created good quality images for over 95% of the 5,336 pointings. This data release covers 36,900 deg<sup>2</sup> (or 3.6 pi steradians) of the sky between -53 and +90 degrees Declination, which is 90% of the total sky. The majority of pointing images has a noise level below 5 mJy/beam (the median RMS background noise is 3.5 mJy per beam), with an approximate resolution of 25" x 25" (or 25" x 25"/cos(Dec-19<sup>o</sup>) for pointings south of 19 degrees Declination). The authors have produced a catalog of 0.62 Million radio sources with flux densities ranging from 11.1 mJy to 9.22 kJy that are derived from an initial, high-reliability source extraction at the 7-sigma level. For the bulk of the survey, the measured overall astrometric accuracy is better than 2 arcseconds in Right Ascension and Declination, while the flux density accuracy is estimated at approximately 10%. Within the scope of the TGSS Alternative Data Release (TGSS ADR) project, the source catalog, as well as 5,336 mosaic images (5 x 5 degree<sup>2</sup>) and an image cutout service, are made publicly available as a service to the astronomical community. (The TGSS images and cutout server are available through the project website at <a href="http://tgssadr.strw.leidenuniv.nl/">http://tgssadr.strw.leidenuniv.nl/</a>). In addition to enabling a wide range of different scientific investigations, the authors anticipate that these survey products will provide a solid reference for various new low-frequency radio aperture array telescopes (LOFAR, LWA, MWA, SKA-low), and can play an important role in characterizing the epoch-of-reionization (EoR) foreground. The TGSS ADR project aims at continuously improving the quality of the survey data products. Near-future improvements include replacement of bright source snapshot images with archival targeted observations, using new observations to fill the holes in sky coverage and to replace very poor quality observational data, and an improved flux calibration strategy for less severely affected observational data. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2017 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/598/A78">CDS Catalog J/A+A/598/A78</a> file table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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