{"paper":{"title":"The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) data release I: Stokes I image catalogs at 1-1.4 GHz","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"A. Chatterjee, A. Mohapatra, A. N. Gaunekar, D. Borgaonkar, D. Y. Klutse, E. Momjian, F. Combes, G. I. G. J\\'ozsa, H.-R. Kl\\\"ockner, J. Jose, J-.K. Krogager, J. Wagenveld, K. Knowles, K. L. Emig, K. Moodley, M. Hilton, N. Gupta, P. Jagannathan, P. Noterdaeme, P. P. Deka, P. Petitjean, P. Salas, S. A. Balashev, S. Bhatnagar, S\\'ebastien Muller, S. Sekhar, S. Sikhosana","submitted_at":"2023-08-23T18:00:05Z","abstract_excerpt":"The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) has observed 391 telescope pointings at L-band (900 - 1670 MHz) at $\\delta\\lesssim$ $+20\\deg$. We present radio continuum images and a catalog of 495,325 (240,321) radio sources detected at a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) $>$5 over an area of 2289 deg$^2$ (1132 deg$^2$) at 1006 MHz (1381 MHz). Every MALS pointing contains a central bright radio source ($S_{1\\,\\mathrm{GHz}} \\gtrsim 0.2$ Jy). The median spatial resolution is $12^{\\prime\\prime}$ ($8^{\\prime\\prime}$). The median rms noise away from the pointing center is 25 $\\mu$Jy beam$^{-1}$ (22 $\\mu$Jy be"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2308.12347","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2308.12347/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}