1 Jansky Empty Field Survey
(1 Jy)
(1980s survey to find optical identifications for weak radio sources)
The 1 Jansky Empty Field Survey (1 Jy)
was a 1980s survey to identify optical counterparts
of 558 weak radio sources (of on the order 1 jansky) in the Molonglo Reference Catalog (MRC).
Optical observations were carried out on the
Swope and du Pont telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO).
Discoveries included distant galaxies.
(survey,radio,past)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989ApJ...340...77L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996ApJS..107...19M/abstract
| Prefix | Example | | |
| 1 Jy | 1 Jy 0902+343 | | |
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