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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

This paper presents the catalog of correlated flux densities in three ranges of baseline projection lengths of 637 sources from a 43 GHz (Q-band) survey observed with the Korean VLBI Network. Of them, 623 sources have not been observed…

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…

This thesis reports on the application of new wide-field Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) imaging techniques using real data for the first time. These techniques are used to target three specific science areas: (i) a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-19 Emil Lenc

(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…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play a decisive role in galaxy evolution, particularly so when operating in a radiatively inefficient mode, where they launch powerful jets that reshape their surroundings. However, identifying them is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Enno Middelberg , Adam Deller , Ray Norris , Sotiria Fotopoulou , Mara Salvato , John Morgan , Walter Brisken , Dieter Lutz , Emmanouil Rovilos

We present here the results of a 325 MHz radio survey of M31, conducted with the A-configuration of the Very Large Array. The survey covered an area of 7.6 deg$^2$, and a total of 405 radio sources between $\la$6\arcsec and 170\arcsec in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph D. Gelfand , T. Joseph W. Lazio , B. M. Gaensler

We present the results of the pilot observations of the Deep Extragalactic VLBI-Optical Survey (DEVOS). Our ultimate aim is to collect information on compact structures in a large sample of extragalactic radio sources (~10000 objects) up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Mosoni , S. Frey , L. I. Gurvits , M. A. Garrett , S. T. Garrington , Z. I. Tsvetanov

We present results from a large 86GHz global VLBI survey of compact radio sources. The main goal of the survey is to increase by factors of 3--5 the total number of objects accessible for future 3-mm VLBI imaging. The survey observations…

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

Context: This is the first of a series of papers presenting VLBI observations of the 293 Caltech-Jodrell Bank Flat-Spectrum (hereafter CJF) sources and their analysis. Aims: One of the major goals of the CJF is to make a statistical study…

Radio observations using the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) technique typically have fields of view of only a few arcseconds, due to the computational problems inherent in imaging larger fields. Furthermore, sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-06 E. Middelberg , A. T. Deller , W. F. Brisken , J. S. Morgan , R. P. Norris

We present the description and early results of the mJy Imaging VLBA Exploration at 20 cm (mJIVE-20). mJIVE-20 is a large project on the Very Long Baseline Array which uses "filler" time to systematically inspect a large sample of mJy radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. T. Deller , E. Middelberg

The Gaia celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF) will benefit from a close assessment with independent methods, such as Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) measurements of radio stars at bright magnitudes. However, obtaining full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Jingdong Zhang , Bo Zhang , Shuangjing Xu , Niu Liu , Wen Chen , Hao Ding , Pengfei Jiang , Yan Sun , Jinqing Wang , Lang Cui , Shiming Wen , Xiaofeng Mai , Jinling Li , Fengchun Shu , Yidan Huang

We have conducted a deep survey (r.m.s noise 17 microJy) with the Very Large Array (VLA) at 1.4 GHz, with a resolution of 6 arcsec, of a 1 square degree region included in the VIRMOS VLT Deep Survey. In the same field we already have…

In this paper, progress in improving the coordinates uncertainty of extragalactic radio sources derived from astrometric and geodetic VLBI observations is investigated. For this purpose, 30 catalogs of radio source positions computed in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Zinovy Malkin

The statistical analysis of parsec scale region of radio galaxies is crucial to obtain information on the nature of their central engine. To this purpose, we defined and observed the Bologna Complete Sample (BCS) which is unbiased with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 E. Liuzzo , G. Giovannini , M. Giroletti

We present the BMW-Chandra source catalogue drawn from essentially all Chandra ACIS-I pointed observations with an exposure time in excess of 10ks public as of March 2003 (136 observations). Using the wavelet detection algorithm developed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 P. Romano , S. Campana , R. P. Mignani , A. Moretti , M. Mottini , M. R. Panzera , G. Tagliaferri

Very Long Baseline Interferometry, or VLBI, is the observing technique yielding the highest-resolution images today. Whilst a traditionally large fraction of VLBI observations is concentrating on Active Galactic Nuclei, the number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Enno Middelberg , Uwe Bach

We have a project to measure magnetic fields in the obscuring tori of AGNs. We observed five free-free absorbed jets in radio galaxies with polarimetric VLBI at 15 GHz to determine Faraday rotation measures. Surprisingly, all sources are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Middelberg