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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 460, Issue 4, Pages 4433-4452Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1250
Keywords
surveys; radio continuum: general
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- Australian Government
- Government of Western Australia
- National Science Foundation [ACI-1440620]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Technology Office [NCC5-626]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M001008/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/N013956/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- STFC [ST/M001008/1, ST/N000919/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We have used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array to image similar to 100 deg(2) of SDSS Stripe 82 at 1-2 GHz. The survey consists of 1026 snapshot observations of 2.5 min duration, using the hybrid CnB configuration. The survey has good sensitivity to diffuse, low surface brightness structures and extended radio emission, making it highly synergistic with existing 1.4 GHz radio observations of the region. The principal data products are continuum images, with 16 x 10 arcsec resolution, and a catalogue containing 11 782 point and Gaussian components resulting from fits to the thresholded Stokes-I brightness distribution, forming approximately 8948 unique radio sources. The typical effective 1 sigma noise level is 88 mu Jy beam(-1). Spectral index estimates are included, as derived from the 1 GHz of instantaneous bandwidth. Astrometric and photometric accuracy are in excellent agreement with existing narrowband observations. A large-scale simulation is used to investigate clean bias, which we extend into the spectral domain. Clean bias remains an issue for snapshot surveys with the VLA, affecting our total intensity measurements at the similar to 1 sigma level. Statistical spectral index measurements are in good agreement with existing measurements derived from matching separate surveys at two frequencies. At flux densities below similar to 35 sigma the median in-band spectral index measurements begin to exhibit a bias towards flatness that is dependent on both flux density and the intrinsic spectral index. In-band spectral curvature measurements are likely to be unreliable for all but the very brightest components. Image products and catalogues are publicly available via an FTP server.
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