Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 26-Sep-2023)

Result of query: info cati CLASS$

Details on Acronym:   CLASS
  
CLASS  (Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey)
 Write:<<CLASS  BHHMM+DDd>>  

        <<CLASS  JHHMMSS.ssss+DDMMSS.sss>>
 N:  23418
Object:(Rad)  (SIMBAD class: Radio = Radio Source)
  Note:Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey:    Radio images of flat-spectrum radio sources to create a large sample    of radio-loud gravitationally lensed systems.
    See the survey website: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/research/gravlens/class/class.html    
    1996ApJ...473..595K: 1st ref. with objects of the CLASS survey.
   Ref:=1996ApJ...473..595K
     byKOCHANEK C.S.

 Astrophys. J., 473, 595-609 (1996)

    The flat-spectrum radio luminosity function, gravitational lensing,
    galaxy ellipticities, and cosmology.
oMG 1131+045 = MITG J1131+0456
o<CLASS BHHMM+DDd> N=2.
   Ref:=2003MNRAS.341....1M
     byMYERS S.T.
, JACKSON N.J., BROWNE I.W.A., DE BRUYN A.G., PEARSON T.J., READHEAD A.C.S., WILKINSON P.N., BIGGS A.D., BLANDFORD R.D., FASSNACHT C.D., KOOPMANS L.V.E., MARLOW D.R., McKEAN J.P., NORBURY M.A., PHILLIPS P.M., RUSIN D., SHEPHERD M.C., SYKES C.M.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 341, 1-12 (2003)

    The Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey - I. Source selection and observations.

oTable 3: <CLASS JHHMMSS.ssss+DDMMSS.sss> N=23418.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as VIII/72
 Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)