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Table 7.

Properties of the TGSS-ADR1, WENSS, SUMSS and NVSS.

TGSS-ADR1 WENSS SUMSS NVSS
Instrument GMRT WRST MOST VLA
Latitude 19° 05′ 48″ N 52° 54′ 53″ N 53° 22′ 15″ S 34° 04′ 43″ N
Central frequency 147 MHz 325 MHz 843 MHz 1.4 GHz
Sky coverage Dec > −53 deg Dec > 30 deg Dec ≤ −30 deg Dec > −40 deg
Sky area 11.24 sr 3.10 sr 2.47 sr 10.32 sr
Sky fraction 0.89 0.25 0.20 0.82
Limit flux density 25 mJy 15 mJy 6/10 mJy 2.5 mJy
Source density 5.7 × 104 sr−1 7 × 104 sr−1 8.6 × 104 sr−1 17.2 × 104 sr−1
Resolution 25″ × 25″ 54″ × 54″/sin(Dec) 45″ × 45″/cos(Dec) 45″ × 45″
Number of objects 640 017 229 420 210 412 1 773 484

Notes. More details can be found in Sect. 5.

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