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FIRST

(Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters)
(1990s radio survey)

FIRST (for Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters) was a Very Large Array (VLA) radio survey carried out in the 1990s, of 10,575 square degrees covering the north and south galactic caps. New releases of the resulting catalog have been published more recently.


(survey,radio)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faint_Images_of_the_Radio_Sky_at_Twenty-Centimeters
http://sundog.stsci.edu/
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/first.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995ApJ...450..559B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994ASPC...61..165B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997ApJ...475..479W/abstract
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/VIII/90
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
20cm1.5GHz6.2μeVFIRST
PrefixExample  
FBQSFBQS J1408+3054quasar surveyhttps://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996AJ....112..407G/abstract
FIRSTFIRST J102347.6+003841 

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