To facilitate faster access and downloading for UK users, MRAO Cambridge is providing a UK Mirror of the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS), produced at NRAO. For details and facilities see list below. The NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) is a radio continuum survey covering the sky north of -40 deg declination. A detailed description appears in the 1998 May issue of The Astronomical Journal (Condon, J. J., Cotton, W. D., Greisen, E. W., Yin, Q. F., Perley, R. A., Taylor, G. B., & Broderick, J. J. 1998, AJ, 115, 1693).
The NVSS has been made as a service to the astronomical community, and the principal data products were released by NRAO as soon as they were produced and verified. The very few small, isolated holes in the I (total intensity) coverage have now been filled at NRAO (July 2002) and this MIRROR was updated accordingly on 2 August 2002 with the resulting new images and revised source catalogue. We understand that the few remaining holes in polarization data will not be filled.
Freestanding anonymous FTP can be used to access the archive if you do not always have/wish to use access via a Web browser.
This page has been modularised to help locate the topic you require .
This site will evolve to provide more of the facilities available at the NVSS main site in due course.
The VLA is an instrument of the (USA) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (NRAO), which is a facility of the (USA) National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
For more information about the NVSS, contact
jcondon@nrao.eduPlease send questions and comments about this MIRROR to:
segh@mrao.cam.ac.uk