Green Bank 6-cm (GB6) Radio Source Catalog

The Green Bank 4.85 GHz (6-cm wavelength) survey (Condon J.J., Broderick J.J., Seielstad G.A., Douglas K., & Gregory P.C. in 1994AJ....107.1829C) was made with the NRAO seven-beam receiver on the (former) 91m telescope during 1986 November and 1987 October. The final set of sky maps covering the declination band 0 deg < Dec. < +75 deg was constructed with data from both epochs.

Its noise and position errors are nearly a factor of 2^(1/2) smaller than in the epoch 1987 maps, from which the 87GB Catalog (<a href="cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VIII/14">CDS Catalog <VIII/14></a>) of 54,579 sources stronger than S ~ 25mJy was extracted. Therefore, the new maps were used to make the GB6 catalog of 75,162 discrete sources with angular sizes phi <= 10.5 arcmin and flux densities S >= 18mJy. The GB6 weighted differential source counts S^(5/2)n(S) between 18 mJy and 7 Jy agree well with evolutionary models based on independent data.