Measurements Of The Flux Density Of Discrete Radio Sources At 6 Cm Wavelength

Abstract

The flux densities of 67 non-thermal radio sources have been measured at a frequency of 5000 Mc/s with the CSIRO 210 ft radio telescope at Parkes. The sources were chosen from the stronger objects in the 3C catalogue (Edge et al. 1959), the CTA and CTD catalogues (Harris and Roberts 1960; Kellermann and Read 1965), and the Parkes catalogue (Bolton, Gardner, and Mackey 1964; Price and Milne 1965; Day et al. 1966). In the selection of sources observed in this program, special emphasis was placed on objects whose spectra at lower frequencies showed significant departures from the usual power law with an index near -0�8. Most of the sources reported here have not been previously measured at wavelengths shorter than 10 cm and thus the present observations extend the frequency range of their spectra by nearly a factor of two.