Filling in the Gaps in the 4.85 GHz Sky

Abstract

We describe a 4.85 GHz survey of bright, flat-spectrum radio sources conducted with the Effelsberg 100 m telescope in an attempt to improve the completeness of existing surveys, such as CRATES. We report the results of these observations and of follow-up 8.4 GHz observations with the VLA of a subset of the sample. We comment on the connection to the WMAP point source catalog and on the survey's effectiveness at supplementing the CRATES sky coverage.

13 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. Tables available in electronic form: http://astro.stanford.edu/gaps/

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• Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Temperature Analysis
• CRATES: An All-Sky Survey of Flat-Spectrum Radio Sources
• Bright AGN Source List from the First Three Months of the Fermi Large Area Telescope All-Sky Survey
• CGRaBS: An All-Sky Survey of Gamma-Ray Blazar Candidates
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