2-POINT ANGULAR-CORRELATION FUNCTION FOR THE GREEN-BANK 4.85 GHZ SKY SURVEY

This paper presents an angular correlation analysis of the Green Bank 4.85 GHz radio catalog of 54,579 sources (S greater than or similar to 25 mJy). The Green Bank catalog is found to be complete to S greater than or equal to 35 mJy over 20 degrees less than or equal to delta < 74 degrees, 0(h) less than or equal to alpha < 24(h), and Galactic latitude \b\ greater than or equal to 10 degrees. The two-point angular correlation function shows evidence for the clustering of radio sources, with a power-law distribution consistent with a slope gamma = -0.8. This may well provide the first detection of an angular correlation in a large area, complete deep radio survey.