Westerhout Radio Survey
(W)
(1950s radio survey of the galactic plane)
The abbreviation W has been used for a survey
described by Gart Westerhout in 1958, of 82 1390-MHz (the
21-cm-line frequency) radio sources in the Milky-Way-region
of the celestial sphere,
performed on the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory.
Sources included nebulae and some galaxies in that
region of the sky.
(survey,radio,Netherlands)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958BAN....14..215W/abstract
https://rahist.nrao.edu/westerhout_bio-memoir.shtml
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 216mm | 1390MHz | 5.8μeV | | Westerhout Radio Survey |
|
| Prefix | Example | | |
| W | W51 | | |
| Westerhout | Westerhout 51 | | |
|
Referenced by page:
W51
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