A Southern-Sky Total Intensity Source Catalogue at 2.3 GHz from S-Band Polarisation All-Sky Survey Data. (13th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Meyers, B. W.; Hurley-Walker, N.; Hancock, P. J.; Franzen, T. M. O.; Carretti, E.; Staveley-Smith, L.; Gaensler, B. M.; Haverkorn, M.; Poppi, S.
• Is Part Of: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. Volume 34(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-03-13
• Subjects: catalogs – surveys – radio continuum: general; Astronomy -- Periodicals; Southern sky (Astronomy) -- Periodicals; Astrophysics -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 520.5
• DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2017.5
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1323-3580

Abstract

Abstract: The S -band Polarisation All-Sky Survey has observed the entire southern sky using the 64-m Parkes radio telescope at 2.3 GHz with an effective bandwidth of 184 MHz. The surveyed sky area covers all declinations δ ⩽ 0°. To analyse compact sources, the survey data have been re-processed to produce a set of 107 Stokes I maps with 10.75 arcmin resolution and the large scale emission contribution filtered out. In this paper, we use these Stokes I images to create a total intensity southern-sky extragalactic source catalogue at 2.3 GHz. The source catalogue contains 23 389 sources and covers a sky area of 16 600 deg 2, excluding the Galactic plane for latitudes | b | < 10°. Approximately, 8% of catalogued sources are resolved. S -band Polarisation All-Sky Survey source positions are typically accurate to within 35 arcsec. At a flux density of 225 mJy, the S -band Polarisation All-Sky Survey source catalogue is more than 95% complete, and ~ 94% of S -band Polarisation All-Sky Survey sources brighter than 500 mJy beam −1 have a counterpart at lower frequencies.