A catalogue of compact radio sources in and behind the Large Magellanic Cloud

We present the results of a continuum snap- shot survey of a 3 4 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 elds 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 00 ) sources detected at 1.4 GHz and of 70 sources (< 34 00 ) detected at 2.4 GHz are presented. Positions are accurate to about 3 00 and peak flux densities are accurate to about 10% or better, depend- ing on the source position relative to the pointing centers. 32 of the sources detected at 1.4 GHz are coincident with H objects in the catalogue of Davies et al.; these are pos- sibly intrinsic to the LMC. However, we suppose that most are background objects, since the number vs. flux agrees with predictions of extragalactic source counts from other surveys.