The VLA Sky Survey - science goals and some early results from the pilot survey
Abstract
In this talk I shall outline the science possible with the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS). The VLASS will survey the entire sky north of declination -40 deg in three epochs at 3GHz with full polarization information at 3-arcsec resolution, reaching a depth of 70muJy when the three epochs are combined. Key science for this survey includes the detection of radio transients and polarimetric observations across the 2-4GHz band covered by the observations. A pilot survey was conducted during the summer of 2016 to test the data acquisition and reduction strategy. The pilot survey fields were selected to be in regions of the sky well studied at other wavelengths, and I will present some early science results from the pilot, including the results of matching the pilot survey catalogs to overlapping infrared/optical surveys.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229
- Pub Date:
- January 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017AAS...22932403L