Detailed 4.8 and 8.6?GHz radio images of the entire Small Magellanic Cloud with half-power beamwidths of 35'' at 4.8?GHz and 22'' at 8.6?GHz have been obtained using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. A total of 3564 mosaic positions were used to cover an area of 45 on a side. Full polarimetric observations were made. These images have sufficient spatial resolution (~9 and 6?pc, respectively) and sensitivity (3σ of 1.5?mJy?beam–1) to identify most of the individual supernova remnants and H II regions and also, in combination with available data from the Parkes 64?m telescope, the structure of the smooth emission in that galaxy. In addition, limited data using the sixth antenna at 4.5-6?km baselines are available to distinguish bright point sources (< 3 and 2 arcsec, respectively) and to help estimate sizes of individual sources smaller than the resolution of the full survey. The resultant database will be valuable for statistical studies and comparisons with X-ray, optical and infrared surveys of the Small Magellanic Cloud with similar resolution. The images and calibrated uv data are publicly available in FITS format.
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