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Robert F. Minchin

Researcher at Arecibo Observatory

Publications -  130
Citations -  6566

Robert F. Minchin is an academic researcher from Arecibo Observatory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & HIPASS. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 124 publications receiving 6213 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert F. Minchin include Universities Space Research Association & University of Wales.

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The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey. I. Science goals, survey design, and strategy

TL;DR: The ALFALFA project as discussed by the authors uses a two-pass, minimum intrusion, drift scan observing technique that samples the same region of sky at two separate epochs to aid in the discrimination of cosmic signals from noise and terrestrial interference.
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The HIPASS catalogue - I. Data presentation

TL;DR: The HIPASS catalogue as mentioned in this paper is the largest uniform catalogue of H I sources compiled to date, with 4315 sources identified purely by their H I content, and the catalogue data comprise the southern region δ< + 2 ◦ of HIPASS, the first blind H I survey to cover the entire southern sky.