AMI Galactic Plane Survey at 16 GHz: I -- Observing, mapping and source extraction
Abstract
The AMI Galactic Plane Survey (AMIGPS) is a large area survey of the outer Galactic plane to provide arcminute resolution images at milli-Jansky sensitivity in the centimetre-wave band. Here we present the first data release of the survey, consisting of 868 deg^2 of the Galactic plane, covering the area 76 deg \lessapprox l \lessapprox 170 deg between latitudes of |b| \lessapprox 5 deg, at a central frequency of 15.75 GHz (1.9 cm). We describe in detail the drift scan observations which have been used to construct the maps, including the techniques used for observing, mapping and source extraction, and summarise the properties of the finalized datasets. These observations constitute the most sensitive Galactic plane survey of large extent at centimetre-wave frequencies greater than 1.4 GHz.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1208.5343,
title = {AMI Galactic Plane Survey at 16 GHz: I -- Observing, mapping and source extraction},
author = {AMI Consortium and : and Yvette C. Perrott and Anna M. M. Scaife and David A. Green and Matthew L. Davies and Thomas M. O. Franzen and Keith J. B. Grainge and Michael P. Hobson and Natasha Hurley-Walker and Anthony N. Lasenby and Malak Olamaie and Guy G. Pooley and Carmen Rodríguez-Gonzálvez and Clare Rumsey and Richard D. E. Saunders and Michel P. Schammel and Paul F. Scott and Timothy W. Shimwell and David J. Titterington and Elizabeth M. Waldram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5343},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables. Accepted by MNRAS