Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
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Result of query: info cati ATESP$

Details on Acronym:   ATESP
  
ATESP (Australia Telescope ESO Slice Project)
Write:<<ATESP JHHMMSS+DDMMSSA>>
N: 2960
Object:(Rad)  (SIMBAD class: Radio = Radio Source)
Note:The ATESP survey is a radio survey conducted at 1.4 GHz with the Australia Telescope Compact Array on the same region previously covered by the ESO Slice Project redshift survey.
The total area covered by the ATESP survey is about 26 sq. deg and the flux limit of the radio-source catalogue extracted is about 0.5 mJy (at 1.4 GHz).
Survey is described in 2000A&AS..146...31P
Ref:=2000A&AS..146...41P
byPRANDONI I. , GREGORINI L., PARMA P., DE RUITER H.R., VETTOLANI G., WIERINGA M.H., EKERS R.D.
 Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 146, 41-55 (2000)
  The ATESP radio survey. II. The source catalogue.
o<ATESP JHHMMSS+DDMMSSA> N=2960.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as VIII/63
Originof the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5