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In February 1997, the Japanese radio astronomy satellite HALCA was launched to provide the space-bourne element for the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) mission. A significant fraction of the mission time was to be dedicated to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-01-23 R. Dodson , E. Fomalont , K. Wiik

In February 1997 the Japanese radio astronomy satellite Halca was launched to provide the space-bourne element for the VSOP mission. Approximately twenty-five percent of the mission time has been dedicated to the VSOP Survey, a 5 GHz survey…

In February 1997 the Japanese radio astronomy satellite HALCA was launched to provide the space-borne element for the VSOP mission. HALCA provided linear baselines three-times greater than that of ground arrays, thus providing higher…

The VSOP mission is a Japanese-led project to study radio sources with sub-milliarcsec resolution using an orbiting 8 m telescope, HALCA, along with global arrays of Earth-based telescopes. Approximately 25% of the observing time is devoted…

The VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory Programme) mission is a Japanese-led project to study radio sources with sub-milliarcsec angular resolution, using an orbiting 8-m telescope on board the satellite HALCA with a global earth-based array of…

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…

We present full polarization Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations at 5 GHz and 15 GHz of 24 compact active galactic nuclei (AGN). These sources were observed as part of a pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of conducting a…

In 1999, the highly compact and variable BL Lac object AO 0235+164 was identified as the highest brightness temperature active galactic nucleus observed with the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP), with T_B > 5.8 x 10^{13} K. The…

A review is given on the current status and selected results from large VLBI surveys of compact extragalactic radio sources made between 13 cm and 3 mm wavelengths and covering the entire sky. More than 4200 objects are observed and imaged…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Y. Y. Kovalev

We present 5321 milliarcsecond-resolution total intensity and linear polarization maps of 437 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) obtained with the VLBA at 15 GHz as part of the MOJAVE survey, and also from the NRAO data archive. The former is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-18 M. L. Lister , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , M. A. Hodge , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev , T. Savolainen

We report further results from our imaging survey at 15GHz (lambda=2 cm) with the Very Long Baseline Array. This paper presents single epoch images for 39 sources, bringing the total number of objects in the sample to 171. Our sample is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Zensus , E. Ros , K. I. Kellermann , M. H. Cohen , R. C. Vermeulen , M. Kadler

Space-VLBI observations of stellar sources represent a challenge since there are few sources with sufficiently high brightness temperature for detection on space-ground baselines. X-ray binaries (XRB) are among the few types of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-15 Sean M. Dougherty

We report on an ongoing effort to image active galactic nuclei simultaneously observed at 2.3 and 8.6 GHz in the framework of a long-term VLBI project RDV (Research and Development - VLBA) started in 1994 aiming to observe compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-31 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev

We present new results from the VLBA 2 cm Survey, an imaging survey of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at sub-milliarcsecond resolution. We extend the structural variability monitoring program of more than 130 extragalactic parsec-scale radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ros

We present high angular resolution radio snap-shot observations of seven nearby low-luminosity active galaxies (LLAGN) from the NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA) survey. The observations were conducted with MERLIN and EVN/VLBI at 18cm and 6cm. At…

We present a milliarcsecond-resolution radio survey of 17 high-redshift (4 < z < 5.4) blazar candidates observed with the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network at 5 GHz. The primary objective of this study was to…

We present images from a space-VLBI survey using the facilities of the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP), drawing our sample from the well-studied Pearson-Readhead survey of extragalactic radio sources. Our survey has taken advantage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. L. Lister , S. J. Tingay , D. W. Murphy , B. G. Piner , D. L. Jones , R. A. Preston

The statistical study of the parsec scale properties of radio sources is crucial to get information on the nature of the central engine and to provide the foundations of the current unified theories, suggesting that the appearance of active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-14 Elisabetta Liuzzo , Gabriele Giovannini , Marcello Giroletti

We present the observational results from the 43-GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of 124 compact radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that were conducted between 2014 November and 2016 May. The typical dimensions of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-07 X. -P. Cheng , T. An , S. Frey , X. -Y. Hong , X. He , K. I. Kellermann , M. L. Lister , B. -Q. Lao , X. -F. Li , P. Mohan , J. Yang , X. -C. Wu , Z. -L. Zhang , Y. -K. Zhang , W. Zhao

We present observational results for extragalactic radio sources with milliarcsecond components, obtained with the 600 meter ring radio telescope RATAN-600 from 1st to 22nd December, 1997. For each source, a six frequency broad band radio…

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