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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

Geodetic and astrometric VLBI has entered a new era with the implementation of the VLBI Global Observing System (VGOS). These broadband and dual linear polarization observations aim at an accuracy of station coordinates of 1 mm and a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 F. Jaron , L. Baldreich , J. Böhm , P. Charlot , A. Collioud , J. Gruber , H. Krásná , I. Martí-Vidal , A. Nothnagel , V. Pérez-Díez

We observed with the VLBA at 2.3 and 8.6 GHz a complete flux-density limited sample of 482 radio sources with declination >+75 degrees brighter than 200 mJy at 1.4 GHz drawn from the NVSS catalog. 34% of the sources show parsec-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-01 Alexander V. Popkov , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Leonid Y. Petrov , Yuri A. Kovalev

We describe a new method which achieves high precision Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry in observations at millimeter wavelengths. It combines fast frequency-switching observations, to correct for the dominant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson

Aims. We have analysed VLBA 92cm archive data of 44 extragalactic sources in order to identify early targets and potential calibrator sources for the LOFAR radio telescope and the RadioAstron space VLBI mission. Some of these sources will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Rampadarath , M. A. Garrett , A. Polatidis

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 a new technique for obtaining model fittings to VLBI images of astrophysical jets. The method minimizes a performance function proportional to the sum of the squared difference between the model and observed images. The model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Anderson Caproni , Hektor Monteiro , Zulema Abraham , Danilo. M. Teixeira , Rafael T. Toffoli

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

This paper presents the fourth extension to the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey, containing 258 new sources not previously observed with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). This survey, based on three 24 hour VLBA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Petrov , Y. Y. Kovalev , E. Fomalont , D. Gordon

We present in this paper accurate positions of 857 sources derived from the astrometric analysis of 16 eleven-hour experiments from the Very Long Baseline Array imaging and polarimetry survey at 5 GHz (VIPS). Among observed sources,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 Leonid Petrov , Gregory Taylor

Observational studies of GHz peaked spectrum (GPS) sources contribute to the understanding of the radiative properties and interstellar environment of host galaxies. We present the results from the multi-frequency high-resolution VLBI…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 Xiaopeng Cheng , Tao An , Ailing Wang , Sumit Jaiswal

We have combined Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data from several programs in order to resolve differences in reported parsec-scale jet speeds for the TeV gamma-ray source Mkn501. Data from the VLBA 2cm survey, and 8 and 15 GHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. G. Edwards , B. G. Piner

To determine the location of the intra-day variable (IDV) emission region within the jet of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714, a multi-epoch VSOP polarization experiment was performed in Autumn 2000. To detect, image, and monitor the short term…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 U. Bach , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Kraus , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

Five compact radio sources, include 0420-014, 1334-127, 1504-166, 2243-123, and 2345-167, were observed at 5GHz by European VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) Network (EVN) in June, 1996. The primary purpose of this observation was to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Zhou , D. R. Jiang , X. Y. Hong , T. Venturi

We study the faint radio population using wide-field very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of 2865 known radio sources in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field. The main objective of the project was to determine where…

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

We have embarked on a survey of ROSAT PSPC archival data with the aim of detecting all significant surface brightness enhancements due to sources in the innermost 15 arcmin of the PSPC field of view (0.5-2.0 keV). This project is part of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. A. Scharf , L. R. Jones , H. Ebeling , E. Perlman , M. Malkan , G. Wegner

We present Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) images of 20 TeV blazars (HBLs) not previously well-studied on the parsec scale. Observations were made between August and December 2013, at a frequency of 8.4 GHz. These observations represent the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 B. Glenn Piner , Philip G. Edwards

A patch of sky in the SDSS Stripe 82 was observed at 1.6 GHz with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) using the European VLBI Network (EVN). The data were correlated at the EVN software correlator at JIVE (SFXC). There are fifteen…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-19 H. -M. Cao , S. Frey , L. I. Gurvits , J. Yang , X. -Y. Hong , Z. Paragi , A. T. Deller , Ž. Ivezić

To locate and image the compact emission regions in quasars, which are closely connected to the phenomenon of IntraDay Variability (IDV), space VLBI observations are of prime importance. Here we report on VSOP observations of two prominent…