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The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey: Current Status of the Survey and the Study of Large Scale Structure

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We give a short description of the Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS) as well as its current status. This is followed by a presentation of the results from our analysis of the angular two-point correlation function for WENSS, as well as for the new version of the Green Bank 6cm survey. We find that the amplitude in the angular two-point correlation function for the Green Bank surve is about a factor of 3 higher than that for WENSS. We have modelled this result and find that the difference in amplitude between the two surveys indicates that the evolution of the spatial distribution of radio sources is a function of the characteristics of the radio sources.

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  1. Leiden Observatory, P.O. Box 9513, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

    Roeland Rengelink, George Miley, Huub Röttgering & Malcolm Bremer

  2. NFRA, P.O. Box 2, 7990, AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

    Ger De Bruyn & Yuan Tang

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  1. Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France and Leiden Observatory, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

    M. N. Bremer

  2. Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, University of Manchester, UK

    N. Jackson

  3. Astrophysics Department, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain

    I. Pérez-Fournon

  4. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain

    I. Pérez-Fournon

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Rengelink, R., Miley, G., Röttgering, H., Bremer, M., De Bruyn, G., Tang, Y. (1998). The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey: Current Status of the Survey and the Study of Large Scale Structure. In: Bremer, M.N., Jackson, N., Pérez-Fournon, I. (eds) Observational Cosmology. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 226. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5238-9_25

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