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Bright galaxies from WENSS

Involved people at OAB: de Ruiter, Stirpe.

The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey has mapped the sky (above declination ) at 325 MHz (and is complementary to the NVSS survey at 20 cm made by the VLA). The overall catalogue contains about 200000 radio sources with flux density above 15 mJy. Work is in progress at Bologna Observatory to extract from the WENSS catalogue all radio sources associated with ``bright'' (i.e. ) galaxies. All automatic procedures used in the extraction process have now been tested, and a final list of WENSS bright galaxies will be available before the end of 2000. A first analysis, based on a small area (the WENSS minisurvey), was given in de Ruiter, ..., Stirpe, et al. (1998, A&A, 339, 34).