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Many of the compact extragalactic radio sources that are used as fiducial points to define the celestial reference frame are known to have proper motions detectable with long-term geodetic/astrometric Very Long Baseline Interferometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 A. Moór , S. Frey , S. B. Lambert , O. Titov , J. Bakos

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

We present very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of 179 radio sources in the COSMOS field with extremely high sensitivity using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) together with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) (VLBA+GBT) at…

In this paper, we use multi-frequency angular size measurements of 58 intermediate-luminosity quasars reaching the redshifts $z\sim 3$ and demonstrate that they can be used as standard rulers for cosmological inference. Our results indicate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Jingzhao Qi , Yu Pan , Xiaogang Zheng , Tengpeng Xu , Xuan Ji , Zong-Hong Zhu

We report the results of multifrequency-VLBI observations of GHz-Peaked-Spectrum (GPS) radio sources. The VLBI structure and component spectra of some GPS sources are presented. Our VLBI results show that about 80% of the GPS galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-20 X. Liu , H. -G Song , L. Cui

Aims and Methods: We present the results of VLBI observations of nineteen GHz-Peaked-Spectrum (GPS) radio sources at 1.6 GHz. Of them, 15 sources are selected from the Parkes Half Jansky (PHJ) sample (Snellen 2002), 4 others are from our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-10 Xiang Liu , Lang Cui , Wen-Feng Luo , Wei-Zhao Shi , Hua-Gang Song

We present the results of EVN+MERLIN VLBI polarization observations of 8 Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasars at 1.6 GHz, including 4 LoBALs and 4 HiBALs with either steep or flat spectra on VLA scales. Only one steep-spectrum source,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Liu , D. R. Jiang , T. G. Wang , F. G. Xie

We report results of pentachromatic VLBI survey for 18 GHz-peaked spectrum sources. Spectral fitting at every pixel across five frequencies allows us to illustrate distribution of optical depth in terms of free-free absorption or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Kameno , M. Inoue , Z. -Q. Shen , S. Sawada-Satoh , K. Wajima

Multi-frequency, multi-epoch ATCA observations of a sample of AGN resulted in the identification of 9 new candidate Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources. Here we present Long Baseline Array observations at 4.8 GHz of the four candidates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-06 P. G. Edwards , S. J. Tingay

We investigate a sample of 2293 ICRF2 extragalactic radio-loud sources with accurate positions determined by VLBI, mostly active galactic nuclei (AGN) and quasars, which are cross-matched with optical sources in the first Gaia release (Gaia…

We present sub-arcsecond resolution multi-frequency (8 and 22 GHz) VLA images of five low power compact (LPC) radio sources, and phase referenced VLBA images at 1.6 GHz of their nuclear regions. At the VLA resolution we resolve the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Giroletti , G. Giovannini , G. B. Taylor

In the time domain, the radio sky in particular along the Galactic plane direction may vary significantly because of various energetic activities associated with stars, stellar and supermassive black holes. Using multi-epoch Very Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Jun Yang , Yongjun Chen , Leonid I. Gurvits , Zsolt Paragi , Aiyuan Yang , Xiaolong Yang , Zhiqiang Shen

We have used VLBA fringe visibility data obtained at 15 GHz to examine the compact structure in 250 extragalactic radio sources. For 171 sources in our sample, more than half of the total flux density seen by the VLBA remains unresolved on…

We present results from 4.8 GHz VLA and Global-VLBI observations of the northern half of the moderate FIR luminosity (median L_IR = 10^11.01 L_Sol) COLA sample of star-forming galaxies. VLBI sources are detected in a high fraction (20/90)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Parra , J. E. Conway , S. Aalto , P. N. Appleton , R. P. Norris , Y. M. Pihlstroem , L. J. Kewley

I review observational properties of low power radio loud AGN. High resolution VLBI observations allow the estimate of the jet velocity and orientation with respect to the line of sight and the determination of the Doppler factor. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 G. Giovannini , M. Giroletti

Aims. We selected two radio quasars (J1036+1326 and J1353+5725) based on their 1.4-GHz radio structure, which is dominated by a bright central core and a pair of weaker and nearly symmetric lobes at ~10" angular separation. They are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-15 D. Cseh , S. Frey , Z. Paragi , L. I. Gurvits , K. E. Gabanyi

A small sample of 7 southern Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) radio sources has been selected as part of the study of a larger flux-limited complete sample of radio sources. High resolution images, using the VLBI network in the southern…

It is anticipated that future space-born missions, such as Gaia, will be able to determine in optical domain positions of more than 100,000 bright quasars with sub-mas accuracies that are comparable to very long baseline interferometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-13 Leonid Petrov

The European VLBI Network (EVN) has been used at two epochs in 2003 and 2009 to obtain multi-frequency high-resolution images of the merger galaxy NGC6240 in order to study the radio properties of all compact high-brightness components in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Y. Hagiwara , W. A. Baan , H. -R. Kloeckner

We present high-sensitivity Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations of four ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs): Holmberg II X-1, IC 342 X-1, NGC 6946 X-1, and NGC 925 X-1. No compact emission was detected on milliarcsecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-24 Ailing Wang , Hua Feng , Tao An , Yijia Zhang , Jun Yang , Roberto Soria , Lian Tao , Thomas Russell , Jing Guo , Liang Zhang