ASKAP Data Products for Project AS201 (EMU): catalogues

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EMU is the touchstone radio continuum survey of the southern hemisphere. EMU will image the southern sky to a sensitivity of 20 microJy rms with a resolution of 15 arcsec. Over the initial five years of full ASKAP operations EMU is expected to detect and catalogue about 40 million galaxies, including typical star-forming galaxies over the latter half of the history of the Universe, powerful starbursts to even greater distances, and supermassive black holes in galaxies to the edge of the visible Universe. It will continue to discover new classes of object, and enable research covering the linked evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes, the large scale structure and cosmology of our Universe, the astrophysics of galaxy clusters and halos, and the formation of stars and the stellar lifecycle within our Milky Way and nearby galaxies. EMU will provide a lasting legacy as the most sensitive wide area atlas of the southern radio sky for decades to come.