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Andernach, H.
Bibliographical reference
IAC Noticias I-1992, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, ISSN 0213-983-X, Vol. 1, p. 10-12
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1992
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Description
A bibliographical search recently lead to the estimate that the number
of published flux measurements of radio sources has considerably
exceeded 500000, not counting measurements of other source parameters
(like size, polarisation, variability, optical identification, etc.).
This number is growing at ever higher speed. The data are scattered over
hundreds of papers, and not even the largest and most recent catalogues
are readily available from existing astronomical data centers. This
report explains how several dozen larger and smaller source lists, which
were not yet archived by any data center, have been collected over the
last two years. They comprise entries for a total of nearly 400000 radio
sources and other extragalactic objects.