Sources detected at 325 and 610 MHz in Cygnus

The data were collected during 172 hours in 2013-2017, using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) with 32MHz bandwidth, and were calibrated using the SPAM routines. The source extraction was carried out with the PyBDSF tool,followed by verification through visual inspection of every putative catalog candidate source in order to determine its reliability. In this first paper we present the catalog of sources, consisting of 1048 sources at 325MHz and 2796 sources at 610MHz.

By cross-matching the sources from both frequencies with the objects of the SIMBAD database, we found possible counterparts for 143 of them. Most of the sources from the 325MHz catalog (993) were detected at the 610MHz band, and their spectral index alpha was computed adopting S(nu){prop.to}nu^alpha^. The maximum of the spectral index distribution is at alpha=-1, which is characteristic of non-thermal emitters and might indicate an extragalactic population.