Optical counterparts for 70,000 radio sources: APM identifications for the first radio survey

Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-23

  McMahon, Richard G ^a   White, Richard L ^b   Helfand, David J ^c   Becker, Robert H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalogs; Galaxies: general; Quasars: general; Radio continuum: general; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042688131     PISSN: 00670049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342623     Document Type: Review

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