NRAO VLA Sky Survey Catalog

This table contains the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Very Large Array (VLA) Sky Survey, the so-called NVSS Catalog. The NVSS Catalog covers the sky north of the J2000.0 Declination of -40 degrees (82% of the celestial sphere) at 1.4 GHz. The principal data products of the NVSS were (1) a set of 2326 4 degree by 4 degree continuum "cubes" with three planes containing Stokes I, Q, and U images, plus (2) a catalog of almost 2 million discrete sources stronger than a flux density S of about 2.5 mJy. The images all have 45 arcsecond FWHM angular resolution and nearly uniform sensitivity. Their rms brightness fluctuations are approximately 0.45 mJy/beam = 0.14 K (Stokes I) and approximately 0.29 mJy/beam = 0.09 K (Stokes Q and U). The rms uncertainties in right ascension and declination vary from <= ~1 arcsecond for the 400,000 sources stronger than 15 mJy to 7 arcseconds at the survey limit. The NVSS was made as a service to the astronomical community. All data products, user software, and updates were released via the World-Wide Web as soon as they were produced and verified. For more complete information on the NVSS, please refer to the NVSS website at <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/">http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/</a> This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2002 based on the file <a href="ftp://ftp.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/CATALOG/NVSSCatalog.text.gz">ftp://ftp.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/CATALOG/NVSSCatalog.text.gz</a> provided by the NVSS Catalog's authors. It was updated by the HEASARC in June 2009 to fix a problem with the original ingest in which the leading digit of some flux fields was lost. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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