A CATALOG OF COMPACT RADIO-SOURCES IN AND BEHIND THE LARGE-MAGELLANIC-CLOUD

We present the results of a continuum snapshot survey of a 3 degrees x 4 degrees region of the Large Magellanic Cloud including the area of the giant molecular cloud and the 30 Doradus nebula. The observations have been carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA )(1) at 1.4 and 2.4 GHz. Most fields are complete to about 6 mJy peak flux density at 1.4 GHz and to about 3 mJy at 2.4 GHz. The positions, peak and integral flux densities of 113 compact (< 54 '') sources dete cted at 1.4 GHz and of 70 sources (< 34 '') detected at 2.4 GHz are pr esented. Positions are accurate to about 3 '' and peak flux densities are accurate to about 10% or better, depending on the source position relative to the pointing centers. 32 of the sources detected at 1.4 GH z are coincident with H alpha objects in the catalogue of Davies et al .; these are possibly intrinsic to the LMC. However, we suppose that m ost are background objects, since the number vs. flux agrees with pred ictions of extragalactic source counts from other surveys.