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The Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is studying a space VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometer) program. The ultimate objective of the program is to image the immediate vicinity of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 Xiaoyu Hong , Zhiqiang Shen , Tao An , Qinghui Liu , the Chinese Space VLBI Array team

The highest-redshift quasars are still rare and valuable objects for observational astrophysics and cosmology. They provide important constraints on the growth of the earliest supermassive black holes in the Universe, and information on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 S. Frey , L. I. Gurvits , Z. Paragi , K. E. Gabanyi

We provide an observation method for gravitational waves using a pulsar timing array to extend the observational frequency range up to the rotational frequency of pulsars. For this purpose, we perform an analysis of a perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-04 Chan Park

Low frequency radio waves, while challenging to observe, are a rich source of information about pulsars. The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is a new radio interferometer operating in the lowest 4 octaves of the ionospheric "radio window":…

We have conducted observations of 22 pulsars at frequencies of 0.7, 1.4 and 3.1 GHz and present their polarization profiles. The observations were carried out for two main purposes. First we compare the orientation of the spin and velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , M. Kramer , A. Karastergiou , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , J. Wallman

The vast majority of the pulsars detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) display spectra with exponential cutoffs falling in a narrow range around a few GeV. Early spectral modelling predicted spectral cutoff energies of up to 100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-08 M. Breed , C. Venter , A. K. Harding

We report here on initial results from the Thousand Pulsar Array (TPA) programme, part of the Large Survey Project "MeerTime" on the MeerKAT telescope. The interferometer is used in tied-array mode in the band from 856 to 1712~MHz, and the…

Detection and study of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources is a major goal of current astrophysics. Ground-based laser-interferometer systems such as LIGO and VIRGO are sensitive to gravitational waves with frequencies of order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Manchester

Radio astronomy provides a unique window on the universe, allowing us to study: non-thermal processes (galactic nuclei, quasars, pulsars) at the highest angular resolution using VLBI, with low opacity. It is the most interesting wave band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R D Ekers , J F Bell

The Vela pulsar is the brightest persistent source in the GeV sky and thus is the traditional first target for new gamma-ray observatories. We report here on initial Fermi Large Area Telescope observations during verification phase pointed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. A. Abdo

In an attempt to increase the number of known microquasars, Paredes et al. (2002) have presented a long-term project focused on the search for new objects of this type. They performed a cross-identification between X-ray and radio catalogs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ribo , E. Ros , J. M. Paredes , M. Massi , J. Marti

The Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) is the highest angular resolution imaging interferometer currently available as a common user facility. It is capable of angular resolutions on the order of 40 microarcseconds. Currently 14 stations in the…

We observed the gravitationally lensed blazar JVAS B0218+357 with the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA) at 22, 43, and 86 GHz. The source has recently been identified as an active gamma-ray source up to GeV/TeV energy bands, rendering a unique…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-03 Kazuhiro Hada , Kotaro Niinuma , Julian Sitarek , Cristiana Spingola , Ayumi Hirano

We present the results of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations using the phase reference technique to detect weak Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) cores in the Virgo cluster. Our observations were carried out using the Korean…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-12 Evangelia Tremou , Taehyun Jung , Aeree Chung , Bong Won Sohn

A systematic study of 80 known pulsars observed at 185 MHz has been conducted using archival incoherent-sum data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The dataset comprises 48 drift-scan observations from the MWA Voltage Capture System,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Ting Yu , Hongyu Gong , Zhifu Gao , Zhongli Zhang , Zhigang Wen , Yujie Wang , Tao An

This paper presents accurate absolute positions from a 24 GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) search for compact extragalactic sources in an area where the density of known calibrators with precise coordinates is low. The goals were to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 L. Petrov , Y. Y. Kovalev , E. B. Fomalont , D. Gordon

To increase the number of sources with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry available for comparison with the Gaia results, we have observed 31 young stars with recently reported radio emission. These stars are all in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Sergio A. Dzib , Laurent Loinard , Ralf Launhardt , Jazmín Ordóñez-Toro

The main reasons for searching for pulsars are to: (i) get an accurate census of the neutron star population and its origin and evolution; (ii) connect neutron stars to other stellar populations in the Galaxy and globular clusters; (iii)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 D. R. Lorimer

We present an updated K band (24 GHz) celestial reference frame (CRF) constructed from 3.5 million Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations collected during 211 observing epochs between May 2002 and December 2025 using the Very…

Many features of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) contrive to make it the best telescope for pulsar astrometry. The measured proper motions and parallaxes allow distances and transverse velocities to be determined. These in turn provide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Brisken