THE PARKES MIT NRAO SURVEYS .4. MAPS FOR THE SOUTHERN SURVEY COVERING -88-DEGREES-LESS-THAN-DELTA-LESS-THAN-37-DEGREES

The NRAO seven-beam receiver was used on the Parkes 64 m telescope during 1990 June to make the Parkes-MIT-NRAO (PMN) 4.85 GHz continuum sky surveys of the declination band -88-degrees < delta < -9-degrees. The PMN Southern Survey covering -88-degrees < delta < -37-degrees was reduced with AIPS to yield total-intensity maps covering OMEGA almost-equal-to 2.5 sr with theta almost-equal-to 5' FWHM resolution (approximately 4 X 10(5) beams sr-1). The rms map noise plus confusion increases from sigma almost-equal-to 5 mJy beam-1 near the south celestial pole to sigma almost-equal-to 10 mJy beam-1 at delta = -40-degrees. The rms position uncertainties on the maps vary from 6'' in each coordinate for the strongest sources to 30'' arcsec at S = 5sigma. Sets of maps precessed to B1950 and J2000 coordinates are available on a FITS tape for quantitative analysis.