The VSOP 5 GHz AGN Survey II. Data Calibration and Imaging
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The VSOP mission is a Japanese-led project to study radio sources with sub-milliarcsecond angular resolution using an orbiting 8-m telescope, HALCA and global arrays of Earth-based telescopes. Approximately 25% of the observing time has been devoted to a survey of compact AGN at 5 GHz which are stronger than 1 Jy -- the VSOP AGN Survey. This paper, the second in a series, describes the data calibration, source detection, self-calibration, imaging and modeling, and gives examples illustrating the problems specific to space VLBI. The VSOP Survey web-site which contains all results and calibrated data is described.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0407038,
title = {The VSOP 5 GHz AGN Survey II. Data Calibration and Imaging},
author = {J. E. J. Lovell and G. A. Moellenbrock and S. Horiuchi and E. B. Fomalont and W. K. Scott and H. Hirabayashi and R. G. Dodson and S. M. Dougherty and P. G. Edwards and S. Frey and L. I. Gurvits and M. L. Lister and D. W. Murphy and Z. Paragi and B. G. Piner and Z. -Q. Shen and A. R. Taylor and S. J. Tingay and Y. Asaki and D. Moffett and Y. Murata},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0407038},
year = {2009}
}
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14 pages. To appear in Astrophysical Journal Supplement