- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mgps2
- Title:
- Molonglo Galactic Plane Survey 2nd Epoch Compact Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- MGPS2
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the Molonglo Galactic Plane Survey 2nd Epoch (MGPS-2) Compact Source Catalog. The MGPS-2 was carried out with the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) at a frequency of 843 MHz and with a restoring beam of 45" x 45" cosec |(delta)|, where delta is the declination, making it the highest resolution large-scale radio survey of the southern Galactic plane to date. It covers the range |b| < 10 degrees and 245 < l < 365 degrees, where l and b are the Galactic longitude and latitude, and is the Galactic counterpart to the SUMSS (<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VIII/81">CDS Cat. VIII/81</a>) Catalog which covers that portion of the southern sky with delta < -30 degrees, |b| > 10 degrees. This version of the catalog (15-Aug-2007) consists of 48850 compact sources, made by fitting elliptical Gaussians in the MGPS-2 mosaics to a limiting peak brightness of 10 mJy/beam. The authors used a custom method (described in the associated reference publication) to remove extended sources from the catalog. Positions in the catalog are accurate to 1" - 2". The authors have carried out an analysis of the compact source density across the Galactic plane and find that the source density is not statistically higher than the density expected from the extragalactic source density alone. See <a href="http://www.astrop.physics.usyd.edu.au/mosaics">http://www.astrop.physics.usyd.edu.au/mosaics</a> for access to the MGPS-2 mosaic images. This HEASARC table was created in January 2008 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/382/382">CDS catalog J/MNRAS/382/382</a> file mgpscat.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mostatlas
- Title:
- Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope ATLAS 843-MHz Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- MOSTATLAS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- At the faintest radio flux densities (S<sub>1.4</sub> < 10 mJy), conflicting results have arisen regarding whether there is a flattening of the average spectral index between a low radio frequency (325 or 610 MHz) and, for example, 1.4 GHz. The authors present a new catalog of 843-MHz radio sources in the European Large Area ISO Survey-South 1 (ELAIS-S1) field, which contains the sources, their Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) counterparts and the spectral index distribution of the sources as a function of flux density. The authors do not find any statistically significant evidence for a trend towards flatter spectral indices with decreasing flux density. In the reference paper, they investigate the spectral index distribution with redshift for those sources with reliable redshifts and explore the infrared properties. An initial sample of faint compact steep-spectrum sources in ATLAS are also presented, with a brief overview of their properties. To obtain low-radio-frequency (843-MHz) data within the ATLAS ELAIS-S1 region (Middelberg et al. 2008, AJ, 135, 1276, the tables from which are available as the ATLASESID and ATLASESCPT tables in the HEASARC database), the authors used the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST). They have made 31 separate 12-h observations taken with MOST, which were combined into a single image with a spatial resolution of 62 arcsec x 43 arcsec. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2013 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/421/1644">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/421/1644</a> file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mostsnrcat
- Title:
- Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope Supernova Remnant Catalog
- Short Name:
- MOSTSNRCAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- A catalog of supernova remnants (SNR) in the southern Galaxy within the Galactic Plane area 245 degrees <= galactic longitude l_II <= 355 degrees, galactic latitude |b_II| <~ 1.5 degrees has been produced from observations made in a series of 650 overlapping fields at 0.843 GHz (35.6 cm) with a spatial resolution of 43" using the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST). This table contains information on 57 known SNR (listed in Table MSC.A of the reference paper), 18 SNR newly discovered in this survey (Table MSC.B), 16 possible SNR (Table MSC.C), and 2 reclassified SNR (discussed in Section 3.3 of the reference paper), for a total of 93 SNR. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on the CDS table J/A+AS/118/329, file msc.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mrc
- Title:
- Molonglo Reference Catalog of Radio Sources
- Short Name:
- MRC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog is a version of the 1990 issue of the "Molonglo Reference Catalog of Radio Sources" (MRC). The MRC is one of the largest homogeneous catalogs of radio sources, containing 12,141 discrete sources with flux densities greater than 0.7 Jy in the declination range +18.5 degrees to -85 degrees (1950 coordinates) and excluding regions within 3 degrees of the Galactic equator. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/magpis
- Title:
- Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey
- Short Name:
- MAGPIS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey (MAGPIS) maps portions of the first Galactic quadrant with an angular resolution, sensitivity, and dynamic range that surpass existing radio images of the Milky Way by more than an order of magnitude. The source detection threshold at 20 cm is in the range 1-2 mJy over the 85% of the survey region (Galactic longitudes from 5 to 32 degrees and Galactic latitudes within 0.8 degrees of the Galactic plane) not covered by bright extended emission; the angular resolution is ~6". Over 3000 discrete sources (diameters mostly <30") and ~400 diffuse emission regions are catalogued. Additional information and data products, including full-resolution 20 cm images, complementary 90 cm images, regridded MSX 21 micron images, an image atlas of diffuse emission regions are available at the MAGPIS web site <a href="http://third.ucllnl.org/gps">http://third.ucllnl.org/gps</a> This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2006 based on machine-readable versions of Tables 2 and 3 of the above reference which were obtained from the electronic Astronomical Journal web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mwacs
- Title:
- Murchison Widefield Array Commissioning Survey Compact Low-Frequency Source Ctlg
- Short Name:
- MWACS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Murchison Widefield Array Commissioning Survey (MWACS) is a ~6100 deg<sup>2</sup> 104 - 196 MHz radio sky survey performed with the Murchison Widefield Array during instrument commissioning between 2012 September and 2012 December. The data were taken as meridian drift scans with two different 32-antenna sub-arrays that were available during the commissioning period. The data were combined in the visibility plane before being imaged, and then mosaicked. The survey covers approximately 20.5<sup>h</sup> < RA < 8.5<sup>h</sup>, -58<sup>o</sup> < Dec < -14<sup>o</sup> over three frequency bands centred on 119, 150 and 180 MHz. The survey has 3-arcminute angular resolution and a typical noise level of 40 mJy/beam, with reduced sensitivity near the field boundaries and bright sources. The catalog consists of flux density and spectral index measurements for 14,110 sources, extracted from the mosaics, 1,247 of which are sub-components of complexes of sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2014 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VIII/98">CDS catalog VIII/98</a> file mwacs.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mwak2f1lfc
- Title:
- Murchison Widefield Array Low-Frequency Radio Survey of Kepler K2 Field 1
- Short Name:
- MWAK2F1LFC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains some of the results from the first dedicated radio continuum survey of a Kepler K2 mission field, Field 1, covering the North Galactic Cap. The survey was wide-field, contemporaneous, multi-epoch, and multi-resolution in nature and was conducted at low radio frequencies between 140 and 200 MHz. The multi-epoch and ultra-wide-field (but relatively low-resolution) part of the survey was provided by 15 nights of observation using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) over a period of approximately a month, contemporaneous with K2 observations of this field. The multi-resolution aspect of the survey was provided by the low-resolution (4 arcminutes) MWA imaging, complemented by non-contemporaneous but much higher resolution (20 arcseconds) observations using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The survey is, therefore, sensitive to the details of radio structures across a wide range of angular scales. Consistent with other recent low radio frequency surveys, no significant radio transients or variables were detected in the survey. The resulting source catalogs consist of 1,085 and 1,468 detections in the two MWA observation bands (centered at 154 and 185 MHz, respectively) and 7445 detections in the GMRT observation band (centered at 148 MHz), over 314 square degrees. The survey is presented as a significant resource for multi-wavelength investigations of the more than 21,000 target objects in the K2 field. In the reference paper, the authors briefly examined their survey data against K2 target lists for dwarf star types (stellar types M and L) that had been known to produce radio flares. This survey included contemporaneous observations of the K2 Field 1 made with the MWA and historical (from 2010-2012) observations made with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS; see <a href="http://tgss.ncra.tifr.res.in/">http://tgss.ncra.tifr.res.in/</a>), via the TGSS Alternative Data Release 1 (ADR1; Intema et al. 2016, in prep.). The MWA and GMRT are radio telescopes operating at low radio frequencies (approximately 140-200 MHz for the work described here). The K2 mission Campaign 1 was conducted on Field 1 (center at J2000.0 coordinates RA of 11:35:45.51 and Dec of +01:25:02.28;), covering the North Galactic Cap, between 2014 May 30 and August 21. The details of the MWA observations are described in Table 1 of the reference paper (available at <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/152/82/table1.dat">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/152/82/table1.dat</a>), showing the 15 observations conducted over a period of approximately one month in 2014 June and July. All observations were made in a standard MWA imaging mode with a 30.72-MHz bandwidth consisting of 24 contiguous 1.28-MHz "coarse channels", each divided into 32 "fine channels" each of 40-kHz bandwidth (a total of 768 fine channels across 30.72 MHz). The temporal resolution of the MWA correlator output was set to 0.5s. All observations were made in full polarimetric mode, with all Stokes parameters formed from the orthogonal linearly polarized feeds. Observations were made at two center frequencies, 154.88 and 185.60 MHz, with two 296-s observations of the K2 field at each frequency on each night of observation, accompanied by observations of one of three calibrators (Centaurus A, Virgo A, or Hydra A) at each frequency, with 112-s observations. The observed fields were tracked, and thus, due to the fixed delay settings available to point the MWA primary beam, the tracked RA and Dec changes slightly between different observations (always a very small change compared to the MWA field of view). The total volume of MWA visibility data processed was approximately 2.2 TB. The synthesized beam at 154 MHz is approximately 4.6 x 4.2 arcminutes at a position angle of 105 degrees, and approximately 4 x 3 arcminutes at a position angle of 109 degrees at 185 MHz. The 154 MHz images have a typical noise of 100 mJy/beam, while the 184 MHz images have a typical noise of 70 mJy/beam. A source catalog was produced from each of the two frequencies of MWA data and given in Table 2 of the reference paper. The final set of MWA images after source finding yielded a total of 1,085 radio sources at 154 MHz, and 1,471 sources at 185 MHz over 314 square degrees, at an angular resolutions of ~4 arcminutes: this MWA catalog is contained in this HEASARC table, which thus has 1,085 + 1,471 = 2,556 entries. The GMRT images, after source finding, yielded a total of 7,445 radio sources over the same field, at an angular resolution of ~0.3 arcminutes: the GMRT catalog is contained in a separate HEASARC table GMRTK2F1LF which is available at <a href="http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/radio-catalog/gmrtk2f1lf.html">http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/radio-catalog/gmrtk2f1lf.html</a>. Thus, the overall survey covers multiple epochs of observation, spans approximately 140-200 MHz, is sensitive to structures on angular scales from arcseconds to degrees, and is contemporaneous with the K2 observations of the field over a period of approximately one month. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2016 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/152/82">CDS Catalog J/AJ/152/82</a> file table2.dat (the MWA Kepler 2 Field 1 source catalog). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mwa32thgl
- Title:
- Murchison Widefield Array 32-T Low-Frequency Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- MWA32THGL
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new low-frequency, wide-field-of-view radio interferometer under development at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. The authors have used a 32 element MWA prototype interferometer (MWA-32T) to observe two 50 degree diameter fields in the southern sky, covering a total of ~ 2700 deg<sup>2</sup>, in order to evaluate the performance of the MWA-32T, to develop techniques for epoch of reionization experiments, and to make measurements of astronomical foregrounds. They developed a calibration and imaging pipeline for the MWA-32T, and used it to produce ~15 arcminutes angular resolution maps of the two fields in the 110-200 MHz band. The authors perform a blind source extraction using these confusion-limited images, and detect 655 sources at high significance with an additional 871 lower significance source candidates. They compare these sources with existing low-frequency radio surveys in their paper in order to assess the MWA-32T system performance, wide-field analysis algorithms, and catalog quality. Their source catalog is found to agree well with existing low-frequency surveys in these regions of the sky and with statistical distributions of point sources derived from Northern Hemisphere surveys; it represents one of the deepest surveys to date of this sky field in the 110-200 MHz band. Observations were conducted with the MWA-32T in 2010 March during a two-week campaign (X13). Data were taken in three 30.72 MHz sub-bands centered at 123.52 MHz, 154.24 MHz, and 184.96 MHz in order to give (nearly) continuous frequency coverage between ~ 110 MHz and ~ 200 MHz. The observing time was divided between two fields. One field was centered on the bright extragalactic source Hydra A at RA (J2000) = 9<sup>h</sup> 18<sup>m</sup> 6<sup>s</sup>, Dec (J2000) = -12^o 5' 45" to facilitate calibration. The other covered the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) field 2, centered at RA (J2000) = 10<sup>h</sup> 20<sup>m</sup> 0<sup>s</sup>, Dec (J2000) = -10<sup>o</sup> 0' 0". The EoR2 field is one of two fields at high Galactic latitude that have been identified by the MWA Collaboration as targets for future EoR experiments. Although the centers of the Hydra A and EoR2 fields are separated by 15.3 degrees, there is considerable overlap between them since the half-power beam width of the primary beam is ~ 25 degrees at 150 MHz. Table 1 in the reference paper gives a journal of the observations. This table contains 648 radio sources which were detected in the full-band average map at or above a signal-to-noise ratio of 5. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2012, based on an electronic version of table 2 from the reference paper as obtained from the ApJ website. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/wbhgp20cm
- Title:
- New Catalog of Compact 20cm Sources in the Galactic Plane
- Short Name:
- WBH20cmGP
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the New Catalog of Compact Radio (20-cm) Sources in the Galactic Plane of White et al. (2005). Archival data were combined with more recent observations of the Galactic plane using the Very Large Array to create two new catalogs of compact centimetric radio sources. The 20-cm source catalog contained here covers a longitude range from -20 to +120 degrees in Galactic longitude l; the latitude coverage varies from b = +/- 0.8 to +/- 2.7 degrees. The total survey area is about 331 square degrees; coverage is 90% complete at a flux density threshold of about 14 mJy, and over 5000 sources are recorded. The 6-cm catalog (also available in the HEASARC Browse system as the table WBHGP6CM) covers 43 square degrees in the region -10 degrees < l <42 degrees, |b| < 0.4 degrees to a 90% completeness threshold of 2.9 mJy; over 2700 sources are found. Both surveys have an angular resolution of about 6". These catalogs provide a 30% (at 20 cm) to 50% (at 6 cm) increase in the number of high-reliability compact sources in the Galactic plane, as well as greatly improved astrometry, uniformity, and reliability; they should prove useful for comparison with new mid- and far-infrared surveys of the Milky Way. The images from which this catalog was constructed are available at the MAGPIS web site, <a href="http://third.ucllnl.org/gps">http://third.ucllnl.org/gps</a> This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2006 based on the combination of CDS tables J/AJ/130/586 table3.dat and table4.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/wbhgp6cm
- Title:
- New Catalog of Compact 6cm Sources in the Galactic Plane
- Short Name:
- WBH6cmGP
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the New Catalog of Compact Radio (6-cm) Sources in the Galactic Plane of White et al. (2005). Archival data were combined with more recent observations of the Galactic plane using the Very Large Array to create two new catalogs of compact centimetric radio sources. The 20-cm source catalog (available in the HEASARC Browse system as the table WBHGP20CM) covers a longitude range from -20 to +120 degrees in Galactic longitude l; the latitude coverage varies from b = +/- 0.8 to +/- 2.7 degrees. The total survey area is about 331 square degrees; coverage is 90% complete at a flux density threshold of about 14 mJy, and over 5000 sources are recorded. The 6-cm catalog described here covers 43 square degrees in the region -10 degrees < l <42 degrees, |b| < 0.4 degrees to a 90% completeness threshold of 2.9 mJy; over 2700 sources are found. Both surveys have an angular resolution of about 6". These catalogs provide a 30% (at 20 cm) to 50% (at 6 cm) increase in the number of high-reliability compact sources in the Galactic plane, as well as greatly improved astrometry, uniformity, and reliability; they should prove useful for comparison with new mid- and far-infrared surveys of the Milky Way. The images from which this catalog was constructed are available at the MAGPIS web site, <a href="http://third.ucllnl.org/gps">http://third.ucllnl.org/gps</a> This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2006 based on the combination of CDS tables J/AJ/130/586 table5.dat and table6.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
