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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) observed with the technique of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) are used as fiducial references on the sky to precisely measure the shape and orientation of the Earth. Their positions form a celestial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-31 Ming Hui Xu , Patrick Charlot

This is the first of two papers describing the second data release (DR2) of the Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) at 1.4 GHz, which comprises deep wide-field observations in total intensity, linear polarization, and circular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 C. A. Hales , R. P. Norris , B. M. Gaensler , E. Middelberg , K. E. Chow , A. M. Hopkins , M. T. Huynh , E. Lenc , M. Y. Mao

We have made a radio survey--the Australia Telescope Low Brightness Survey (ATLBS)--of 8.4 square degrees sky area, using the Australia Telescope Compact Array in the 20-cm band, in an observing mode designed to provide wide-field images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ravi Subrahmanyan , R. D. Ekers , Lakshmi Saripalli , E. M. Sadler

Several thousand fast radio burst (FRB) sources have been discovered using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope, as part of the CHIME/FRB project. Currently, CHIME/FRB is able to localize most FRBs to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Aaron B. Pearlman

The light from a source at a distance d will arrive at detectors separated by 100 AU at times that differ by as much as 120 (d/100 Mpc)^{-1} nanoseconds because of the curvature of the wavefront. At gigahertz frequencies, the arrival time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Kyle Boone , Matthew McQuinn

The high angular resolution and sensitivity of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) offer a unique tool to identify and study active galactic nuclei and star-formation activity over cosmic time. However, despite recent technical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-05 Célestin Herbé-George , J. P. Mckean , Raffaella Morganti , Jack F. Radcliffe

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), hosting powerful relativistic jet outflows, provide an excellent laboratory for studying jet physics. Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) enables high-resolution imaging on milli-arcsecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 X. -P. Cheng , T. An , X. -Y. Hong , J. Yang , P. Mohan , K. I. Kellermann , M. L. Lister , S. Frey , W. Zhao , Z. -L. Zhang , X. -C. Wu , X. -F. Li , Y. -K. Zhang

Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry is a radio astronomy technique distinguished by a record-high angular resolution reaching single-digit microseconds of arc. The paper provides a brief account of the history of developments of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Leonid I. Gurvits

(abridged) Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations at 86$\,$GHz (wavelength, $\lambda = 3\,$mm) reach a resolution of about 50 $\mu$as, probing the collimation and acceleration regions of relativistic outflows in active…

The past decade has seen significant advances in cm-wave VLBI extragalactic observations due to a wide range of technical successes, including the increase in processed field-of-view and bandwidth. The future inclusion of MeerKAT into…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Roger P. Deane

Sub-milliarcsecond imaging of nearby main sequence stars and binary systems can provide critical information on stellar phenomena such as rotational deformation, accretion effects, and the universality of starspot (sunspot) cycles.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Dave Kieda , Nolan Matthews

The development of low-frequency radio astronomy experiments for detecting 21-cm line emission from hydrogen presents new opportunities for creative solutions to the challenge of characterizing an antenna beam pattern. The Array of Long…

(Abridged) Conventional radio surveys of deep fields ordinarily have arc-second scale resolutions often insufficient to reliably separate radio emission in distant galaxies originating from star-formation and AGN-related activity. Very long…

We detail the use of the University of Tasmania's (UTAS) optical and radio telescopes to conduct observations of near-Earth asteroids from 2021 to 2024. The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex transmitted a radio signal at 7159.45…

We report on a recent 90 cm wide-field VLBI survey of two 3.1 deg^2 fields using the VLBA, Westerbork and Jodrell Bank telescopes. In-beam calibration was used to calibrate each field, the process was simplified by imaging the calibrators…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emil Lenc , Mike A. Garrett , Olaf Wucknitz , James M. Anderson , Steven J. Tingay

The Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) is a radio survey in the 21 cm H I line and in 1.4 GHz full-polarization continuum, observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Parkes 64m single dish telescope. The survey spans a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Haverkorn , B. M. Gaensler , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , J. M. Dickey , A. J. Green

The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) project, funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), includes the development of LSPE-Strip, a ground-based radio telescope for observing Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. LSPE-Strip,…

We review the radio very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the guide star, IM Peg, and three compact extragalactic reference sources, 3C 454.3, B2250+194, and B2252+172, made in support of the NASA/Stanford gyroscope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 N. Bartel , M. F. Bietenholz , D. E. Lebach , R. R Ransom , M. I Ratner , I. I. Shapiro

Time-delay measurements of 0957+561 based on radio monitoring now agree with optical monitoring. Recent models incorporate many recent observations, but the systematic uncertainties in the models still dominate the uncertainty in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Deborah Haarsma , Joseph Leh'ar , Rennan Barkana

The Australian Space Eye is a proposed astronomical telescope based on a 6U CubeSat platform. The Space Eye will exploit the low level of systematic errors achievable with a small space based telescope to enable high accuracy measurements…