Lunar occultation observations of 25 radio sources made with the ooty radio telescope: list 1

Abstract

A survey of radio sources by the method of lunar occulation is being carried out at Ootacamund in India with a large steerable radio telescope whose cillecting area is 8700 m2. Results for 25 week radio sources with flux densities lying in the range 0.4 to 4 fu at 327 MHz are presented here. seven sources have clear double components with separations ranging from 2.5 to 20 arc sec. Optical identifications have been suggested for 8 of the 25 sources, 5 of which are possibly QSOs. The unidentified radio sources seem to be galaxies with high redshifts.