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Caption: Figure 3.
Side-by-side comparison of two previously known sources (L:0859-257, R:0745-191) extracted from the mosaics in Figure
2. For each source, PAPER is on the left and MWA is on the right with MWA32 catalog sources marked with an X; PSA32 listed
the position and amplitude of the peak within 30′ of the image center. The left source provides examples of errors from both
instruments. The MWA catalog lists two sources separated by 1
4, or 10% of a synthesized beam, which were even given the same truncated J2000 name. Meanwhile, the PAPER image, having not
been cleaned to this flux level, has larger sidelobes. Together these effects contribute to a 180% flux scale between the
two (28 Jy for PAPER, (43+6) Jy for MWA). However, differences in deconvolution do not preclude an accurate comparison as
shown on the right, where a source has multiple confused components yet the PAPER flux is within 17% of the MWA flux.
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