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Fourth Cambridge Catalog of Radio Sources

(4C, Fourth Cambridge Survey)
(1960s catalog of northern hemisphere 178 MHz sources)

The Fourth Cambridge Catalog of Radio Sources (4C), published in the 1960s, includes northern hemisphere radio sources detected at 178 MHz. Data was collected by the 4C Array at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO). It made strides in angular resolution, using aperture synthesis.

A follow-up survey of the sources using a higher-resolution telescope distinguished more sources, which are cited using the designator 4CT.


(catalog,radio,survey,all sky)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Cambridge_Survey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4C_Array
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965MmRAS..69..183P/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1967MmRAS..71...49G/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996yCat.8004....0P/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1966MNRAS.134..371L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1969MNRAS.145..181C/abstract
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
1.7m178MHz736neVFourth Cambridge Catalog of Radio Sources
PrefixExample  
4C4C 02.32 
4CT4CT 39.49.1additional sources

Referenced by pages:
Cambridge Catalog of Radio Sources (C)
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO)

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