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SPLASH

The Southern Parkes Large-Area Survey in Hydroxyl (SPLASH) is a sensitive, unbiased, and fully sampled survey of the southern Galactic plane and Galactic Centre in all four ground-state transitions of the hydroxyl (OH) radical.
March 10, 2022 by J. Dawson
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Data Release 1 Survey Specs

Table 1:Summary of key survey parameters. Where multiple values are quoted on a single line, they are in order of increasing frequency.

Area Coverage 332 < l < 10, |b| < 2
358 < l < 4, 2 < b < 6
Observed frequency bands 1612, 1666, 1720 MHz
Raw beam FWHM 12.6, 12.4, 12.2 arcmin
Main beam gains 1.22, 1.25, 1.29 Jy/K
Raw bandwidth per frequency band 8 MHz
Raw frequency channel width 0.977 kHz
Brightness temperature scale Main beam
Absolute calibration uncertainty 5% (assumed uncertainty on 1934638 flux density model).
Gridding kernel Gaussian FWHM 10 arcmin
Gridding kernel cutoff diameter 20 arcmin
Pixel size 3 arcmin
Effective beam FWHM 15.5 ± 0.2 , 15.4 ± 0.3 , 15.3 ± 0.2 arcmin
Spectral line rest frequencies 1612.231, 1665.402, 1667.359, 1720.530 MHz
Raw velocity channel width 0.18, 0.18, 0.18, 0.17 km s1
Gridded velocity channel width 0.36, 0.35, 0.35, 0.34 km s1
Gridded velocity resolution 0.9 km s1
LSRK velocity coverage ± 300 km s1
Maximum velocity error at band edges 0.14 km s1
Mean spectral rms noise 15 mK (12–20 mK over 95% of the survey area)
Spectral baseline fidelity (excluding CMZ & GC) 20 mK over 95% of positions
Continuum frequency bands 1612, 1666, 1720 MHz
Estimated continuum uncertainty 2%
CMB and diffuse background included? Yes
March 10, 2022 by J. Dawson
March 10, 2022, 5:02 p.m. J. Dawson