WMAP five-year source catalog

DOI

We present the list of point sources found in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) five-year maps. The technique used in the first-year and three-year analyses now finds 390 point sources, and the five-year source catalog is complete for regions of the sky away from the Galactic plane to a 2Jy limit, with SNR>4.7 in all bands in the least covered parts of the sky. The noise at high frequencies is still mainly radiometer noise, but at low frequencies the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is the largest uncertainty. A separate search of CMB-free V-W maps finds 99 sources of which all but one can be identified with known radio sources. The sources seen by WMAP are not strongly polarized. Many of the WMAP sources show significant variability from year to year, with more than a 2:1 range between the minimum and maximum fluxes.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/180/283/table1 (WMAP source catalog)

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/180/283/table2 (WMAP point source catalog - five-year V-W bands)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.21800283
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/180/283
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/180/283
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/180/283
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/180/283
Provenance
Creator Wright E.L.; Chen X.; Odegard N.; Bennett C.L.; Hill R.S.; Hinshaw G.,Jarosik N.; Komatsu E.; Nolta M.R.; Page L.; Spergel D.N.; Weiland J.L.,Wollack E.; Dunkley J.; Gold B.; Halpern M.; Kogut A.; Larson D.; Limon M.,Meyer S.S.; Tucker G.S.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2009
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics