Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters

Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters
Part of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
Alternative namesFIRST
Started1993 Edit this on Wikidata
Ended2011 Edit this on Wikidata
Wavelength20 centimetre Edit this on Wikidata
Websitesundog.stsci.edu
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Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, or FIRST, was an astronomical survey of the Northern Hemisphere carried out by the Very Large Array. It was led by Robert H. Becker, Richard L. White, and David J. Helfand, who came up with the idea for the survey after they had completed the VLA Galactic Plane survey in 1990,[1] as well as Michael D. Gregg and Sally A. Laurent-Muehleisen.[2] The survey was started 50 years after the first systematic survey of the radio sky was completed by Grote Reber in April 1943.[3]

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