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Table 2

Parameters of the KAT–7 observations.

Parameter Pisces A and B

Start of observations 27 November 2014
End of observations 16 December 2014
Total integration 26.5 and 24.0 h
FWHM of primary beam 1.27°
Total bandwidth 12.5 MHz
Central frequency 1419.3 and 1417.5 MHz
Channel bandwidth 15.0 kHz
Channel width 3.2 km s-1
Maps gridding 15′′× 15′′
Maps size 512 × 512
Flux calibrator 1934638
Phase/bandpass calibrator 0022+002

Robust = 0 weighting function
FWHM of synthesized beam 283′′× 184′′and 284′′× 181′′
RMS noise (mJy/beam) 4.5 and 4.2
Column density limit
(3σ over 16 km s-1) ~ 5 × 1018 cm-2

Natural weighting function
FWHM of synthesized beam 320′′× 203′′and 316′′× 200′′
RMS noise (mJy/beam ) 3.4 and 3.2
Column density limit
(3σ over 16 km s-1) ~ 2.5 × 1018 cm-2

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