AMI Consortium, :, Yvette C. Perrott, Anna M. M. Scaife, David A. Green, Matthew L. Davies, Thomas M. O. Franzen, Keith J. B. Grainge, Michael P. Hobson, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Anthony N. Lasenby, Malak Olamaie, Guy G. Pooley, Carmen Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Clare Rumsey, Richard D. E. Saunders, Michel P. Schammel, Paul F. Scott, Timothy W. Shimwell, David J. Titterington, Elizabeth M. Waldram
The AMI Galactic Plane Survey (AMIGPS) is a large area survey of the outer Galactic plane to provide arcminute resolution images at milli-Jansky sensitivity in the centimetre-wave band. Here we present the first data release of the survey, consisting of 868\,deg$^2$ of the Galactic plane, covering the area $76^{\circ} \lessapprox \ell \lessapprox 170^{\circ}$ between latitudes of $|b| \lessapprox 5^{\circ}$, at a central frequency of 15.75 GHz (1.9\,cm). We describe in detail the drift scan observations which have been used to construct the maps, including the techniques used for observing, mapping and source extraction, and summarise the properties of the finalized datasets. These observations constitute the most sensitive Galactic plane survey of large extent at centimetre-wave frequencies greater than 1.4 GHz.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5343
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