Citing RACS

Papers using RACS-low data should cite (1) for the RACS survey description, the usage of RACS-low tile images or their associated source lists; (2) for the convolved and combined RACS-low images or the associated all-sky catalogue. Papers using the improved astrometry of the RACS-low1 catalogue or RACS-low3 source lists should cite (7).

For RACS-mid epochs, papers should cite (1) for the RACS survey description, (4) the usage of RACS-mid tile images or their associated source lists; (5) for the convolved and combined RACS-mid images and associated all-sky catalogue.

For RACS-high epochs, papers should cite (1) for the RACS survey description, (6) when using the RACS-high tile images and associated source lists, the convolved and combined RACS-high images or the associated all-sky catalogue.

Papers utilising data from the SPICE-RACS first data release should cite (3).

McConnell, D., Hale, C., Lenc, E., Banfield, J., et al. (2020). The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey I: Design and first results. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 37, E048. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2020.41
Hale, C.L., McConnell, D., Thomson, A.J., Lenc, E. et al. (2021), “The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey II: First Stokes I Source Catalogue Data Release”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 47, E058. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2021.47
Thomson, A.J.M., McConnell, D., Lenc, E. et al. (2023), “The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey III: Spectra and Polarisation In Cutouts of Extragalactic Sources (SPICE-RACS) First Data Release”, PASA, https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2023.38
Duchesne, S.W., Thomson, A.J.M., Pritchard, J., Lenc, E. et al. (2023), “The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey IV: continuum imaging at 1367.5 MHz and the first data release of RACS-mid”, PASA, https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2023.31
Duchesne, S.W., Grundy, J.A., Heald, G.H., Lenc, E. et al. (2023), “The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey V: cataloguing the sky at 1367.5 MHz and the second data release of RACS-mid”, PASA, https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2023.60
Duchesne, S.W., Ross, K., Thomson, A.J.M., Lenc, E. et al. (2025), “The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) VI: The RACS-high 1 655.5 MHz images and catalogue”, PASA, https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2025.2
Jaini, A., Deller, A.T., Wang, Y, Lenc, E.and Glowacki, M., “Enhanced astrometry of the rapid ASKAP continuum survey for precise localisation of fast radio bursts”, PASA, https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2025.28

Publications that use data from RACS should include the following acknowledgment:

This scientific work uses data obtained from Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara / the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. We acknowledge the Wajarri Yamaji People as the Traditional Owners and native title holders of the Observatory site. CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (https://ror.org/05qajvd42). Operation of ASKAP is funded by the Australian Government with support from the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy. ASKAP uses the resources of the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre. Establishment of ASKAP, Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory and the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre are initiatives of the Australian Government, with support from the Government of Western Australia and the Science and Industry Endowment Fund. This paper includes archived data obtained through the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive, CASDA (https://data.csiro.au).

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