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Westerhout Radio Survey

(W)
(1950s radio survey of the galactic plane)

The abbreviation W has been used for a survey described by Gart Westerhout in 1958, of 82 1390-MHz (the 21-cm-line frequency) radio sources in the Milky-Way-region of the celestial sphere, performed on the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory. Sources included nebulae and some galaxies in that region of the sky.


(survey,radio,Netherlands)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958BAN....14..215W/abstract
https://rahist.nrao.edu/westerhout_bio-memoir.shtml
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
216mm1390MHz5.8μeVWesterhout Radio Survey
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WW51 
WesterhoutWesterhout 51 

Referenced by page:
W51

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