Cosmic Lens All-sky Survey
(CLASS)
(1990s/2000s radio survey aimed at gravitational lensing)
The Cosmic Lens All-sky Survey (CLASS)
was a 1990s/2000s radio astronomical survey to
discover and characterize galaxy-mass gravitational lensing
amongst over ten thousand promising radio sources.
Very Large Array (VLA) radio images of the sources were produced,
after which about a hundred and fifty of the most promising were
followed up using MERLIN, the VLBA, HST, and Keck.
Twenty two such gravitational lenses were discovered.
The acronym CLASS is also used for
the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor,
a more recent array of four microwave telescopes
surveying CMB polarization,
located at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory on the Atacama Desert, Chile.
(survey,radio,catalog,all sky,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology_Large_Angular_Scale_Surveyor
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~smyers/class.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003MNRAS.341....1M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003MNRAS.341...13B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005MNRAS.361..259Y/abstract
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/class/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014SPIE.9153E..1IE/abstract
Prefix | Example | | |
CLASS | CLASS B0901+697 | | |
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Referenced by pages:
CRATES
Q band
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