First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources

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First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources

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The First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (1C) refers to the catalogue listed in the article Ryle M, Smith F G & Elsmore B (1950) MNRAS vol 110 pp508-523 "A Preliminary Survey of Radio Stars in the Northern Hemisphere". [1]

The 1C catalogue listed about 50 radio sources, detected at 3.7 m with a fixed meridian interferometer. According to researchers at the Special Astrophysical Observatory [2], most of the sources from 1C were later recognized to be the effect of confusion, i.e. they were not real objects.

The survey was produced using the Long Michelson Interferometer at the Old Rifle Range in Cambridge in 1950. This device operated primarily at a wavelength of 3.7 metres, with an aperture of 110λ, and was operated using Ryle's phase switching technique. Francis Graham-Smith also used the interferometer to measure the electron density in the ionosphere.

The catalogue from this survey is only informally known as the 1C catalogue.

## Contents

* 1 List of sources
* 2 Results
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## List of sources

Number | RA | Error | Dec | Error | Intensity§ | Magnitude | Current designation

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00.01 | 04h42m | ±6m | 38° | ±5° | 4 | 3.5 |
01.01 | 01h25m | ±5m | 30° | ±3° | 8 | 2.8 |

After Ryle, et al.[1]

§ Intensity is in Watts metres−2 (c./s.)−1 x 1025

Note that the position can be specified more accurately for sources of small declination, since the nature of the instrument is such as to make the table errors overstated if the axis is not exactly East-West.

## Results

The survey found radio sources in close proximity to four of the five major extragalactic nebulae, namely M31, M33, M101 and M51, corresponding to sources 00.01, 01.01, 14.01 and 13.01 respectively. Only M81 had no observed radio source.

The isotropy of the sources lead the team to conclude that radio stars were either local phenomena, or extragalactic.

## See also

* Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
* Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
* Fourth Cambridge Survey
* Fifth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources
* Sixth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources
* Seventh Cambridge Survey
* Eighth Cambridge Survey
* Ninth Cambridge survey at 15GHz

## References

1. ↑ Ryle M; Smith F G; Elsmore B (August 1950). "A Preliminary Survey of Radio Stars in the Northern Hemisphere". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 110 (6): 514. doi:10.1093/mnras/110.6.508. Bibcode: 1950MNRAS.110..508R.

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Radio surveys

Cambridge Radio Surveys|

* 1C
* 2C
* 3C
* 4C
* 5C
* 6C
* 7C
* 8C
* 9C
* 10C

Very Large Array|

* NRAO VLA Sky Survey
* Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters

Extragalactic sources|

* GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey
* HIPASS
* Ohio Sky Survey

Pulsars|

* PALFA Survey

Galactic surveys|

* C-Band All Sky Survey

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