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We have observed a group of luminous IRAS galaxies in the continuum at 1.25mm with the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in 1988 May and September. Table I lists the galaxies and their measured flux densities in a 30 beam. The observing conditions for these observations were excellent and stable. Uranus was the fundamental flux density calibrator, it was assumed to have a brightness temperature of 100 K at 1.25 mm (Hildebrand et al. 1985; Ulich 1974). Integration times were typically a half hour per night, repeated for a total of two or three nights. The bolometer NEFD is 0.5 Jy Hz-1/2 giving statistical errors of 8 to 12 mJy. Systematic uncertainties have not been included in the error estimates, but we believe that they are small, at most 20%.
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Keene, J., Carico, D.P., Neugebauer, G., Soifer, B.T. (1990). Millimeter Observations of Luminous IRAS Galaxies. In: Watt, G.D., Webster, A.S. (eds) Submillimetre Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6850-0_76
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