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VLA_FIRST: Very Large Array FIRST Survey

Contents

Table name: 	VLA FIRST
Records:    	1057
Spectral Band:	Radio
Kind of Object: Fields, Maps
Mode: 		Survey
PreView:
Coordinates: 	J2000

Description

This catalogue only contains pointers to the actual datafiles stored in the archive. The survey is described in more details in a paper by Becker, White and Helfand (1994). A description is also available. The Mark command to retrieve an image of interest). The images are provided in FITS format.

Fields


Name	Type	Meaning

dataset_name A	Name of field
ra	I	J2000 Right Ascension
dec	I	J2000 Declination
imclass A	image type:
   	      
	      PT       OHGEO
              SUM      COADD
              WSM      WTSUM
              PTN      SUM
              PTN      SUM2


Derived Values

_lii   	F	Galactic Longitude
_bii   	F	Galactic Latitude
_L     	F	SuperGalactic Longitude
_B     	F	SuperGalactic Latitude