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Dominion Observatory 1420 MHz Source Catalog

(DA)
(1960s survey of northern-hemisphere radio sources)

In the 1960s, the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia, Canada carried out a survey of the northern sky at 1420 MHz, producing a catalog of 615 radio sources, now referenced with the designator prefix DA. The instrument was the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory 25.6m Telescope (aka 26-Meter Telescope, now called the John A. Galt Telescope).


(survey,radio,Canada,all sky,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Radio_Astrophysical_Observatory
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968AJ.....73..135G/abstract
https://cds.unistra.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?DA
http://astro-canada.ca/l_observatoire_federal_de_radioastrophysique-the_dominion_radio_astrophysical_observatory-eng
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211mm1420MHz5.9μeVDominion Observatory 1420 MHz Source Catalog
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DADA 500 

Referenced by page:
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO)

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