The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey I: Design and first results

D. McConnell; C. L. Hale; E. Lenc; J. K. Banfield; George Heald; A. W. Hotan; James K. Leung; Vanessa A. Moss; Tara Murphy; Andrew O'Brien; Joshua Pritchard; Wasim Raja; Elaine M. Sadler; Adam Stewart; Alec J.M. Thomson; M. Whiting; James R. Allison; S. W. Amy; C. Anderson; Lewis Ball; Keith W. Bannister; Martin Bell; Douglas C.J. Bock; Russ Bolton; J. D. Bunton; A. P. Chippendale; J. D. Collier; F. R. Cooray; T. J. Cornwell; P. J. Diamond; P. G. Edwards; N. Gupta; Douglas B. Hayman; Ian Heywood; C. A. Jackson; Bärbel S. Koribalski; Karen Lee-Waddell; N. M. McClure-Griffiths; Alan Ng; Ray P. Norris; Chris Phillips; John E. Reynolds; Daniel N. Roxby; Antony E.T. Schinckel; Matt Shields; Chenoa Tremblay; A. Tzioumis; M. A. Voronkov; Tobias Westmeier

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The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey I: Design and first results

D. McConnell^*, C. L. Hale, E. Lenc, J. K. Banfield, George Heald, A. W. Hotan, James K. Leung, Vanessa A. Moss, Tara Murphy, Andrew O'Brien, Joshua Pritchard, Wasim Raja, Elaine M. Sadler, Adam Stewart, Alec J.M. Thomson, M. Whiting, James R. Allison, S. W. Amy, C. Anderson, Lewis BallKeith W. Bannister, Martin Bell, Douglas C.J. Bock, Russ Bolton, J. D. Bunton, A. P. Chippendale, J. D. Collier, F. R. Cooray, T. J. Cornwell, P. J. Diamond, P. G. Edwards, N. Gupta, Douglas B. Hayman, Ian Heywood, C. A. Jackson, Bärbel S. Koribalski, Karen Lee-Waddell, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, Alan Ng, Ray P. Norris, Chris Phillips, John E. Reynolds, Daniel N. Roxby, Antony E.T. Schinckel, Matt Shields, Chenoa Tremblay, A. Tzioumis, M. A. Voronkov, Tobias Westmeier

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The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) is the first large-area survey to be conducted with the full 36-antenna Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. RACS will provide a shallow model of the ASKAP sky that will aid the calibration of future deep ASKAP surveys. RACS will cover the whole sky visible from the ASKAP site in Western Australia and will cover the full ASKAP band of 700-1800 MHz. The RACS images are generally deeper than the existing NRAO VLA Sky Survey and Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey radio surveys and have better spatial resolution. All RACS survey products will be public, including radio images (with <![CDATA[ $\sim$ ]]> 15 arcsec resolution) and catalogues of about three million source components with spectral index and polarisation information. In this paper, we present a description of the RACS survey and the first data release of 903 images covering the sky south of declination <![CDATA[ $+41^\circ$ ]]> made over a 288-MHz band centred at 887.5 MHz.

Original language	English
Article number	e048
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2020.41
Publication status	Published - 2020

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McConnell, D., Hale, C. L., Lenc, E., Banfield, J. K., Heald, G., Hotan, A. W., Leung, J. K., Moss, V. A., Murphy, T., O'Brien, A., Pritchard, J., Raja, W., Sadler, E. M., Stewart, A., Thomson, A. J. M., Whiting, M., Allison, J. R., Amy, S. W., Anderson, C., ... Westmeier, T. (2020). The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey I: Design and first results. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Article e048. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2020.41

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The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey I: Design and first results

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