A.J. Green, PASA, 14 (1), 73.
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Characteristics of the MOST Survey
The area of the Galactic Plane to be surveyed is 
. Operating in right hand circular polarization at 843 MHz, the MOST has a resolution of 
cosec 
, a positional accuracy of about 1'' and now a field size of 
cosec . The effective thermal noise level (
) after a 12 hour observation is 1-2 mJy for the Galactic Plane. For more than 
of the surveyed region it is expected that sources of flux density 
mJy will be reliably measured. Near strong sources the sensitivity will be constrained by the dynamic range of the telescope, which is about 250:1.
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