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We present the highest resolution, wide-field radio survey of a nearby face-on star-forming galaxy to date. The multi-phase centre technique is used to survey the entire disk of M51 (77 square arc minutes) at a maximum resolution of 5…

Context. Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data are extremely sensitive to the phase stability of the VLBI array. This is especially important when we reach {\mu}Jy r.m.s. sensitivities. Calibration using standard phase referencing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Jack F. Radcliffe , Michael A. Garrett , Rob J. Beswick , Tom W. B. Muxlow , Peter Barthel , Adam T. Deller , Enno Middelberg

We present the results of PSR$\pi$, a large astrometric project targeting radio pulsars using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). From our astrometric database of 60 pulsars, we have obtained parallax-based distance measurements for all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 A. T. Deller , W. M. Goss , W. F. Brisken , S. Chatterjee , J. M. Cordes , G. H. Janssen , Y. Y. Kovalev , T. J. W. Lazio , L. Petrov , B. W. Stappers , A. Lyne

We present the Brera Multi-scale Wavelet Chandra (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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-14 P. Romano , S. Campana , R. P. Mignani , A. Moretti , M. R. Panzera , G. Tagliaferri , M. Mottini

The compact radio source Sgr\,A*, associated with the super massive black hole at the center of the Galaxy, has been studied with VLBA observations at 3 frequencies (22, 43, 86\,GHz) performed on 10 consecutive days in May 2007. The total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 R. -S. Lu , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Eckart , S. König , D. ~Kunneriath , G. Witzel , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

We have used the Very Large Array(VLA) in C configuration to carry out a sensitive 20cm radio survey of regions of sky that have been surveyed in the Far Infra-Red over the wavelength range 5-200 microns with ISO as part of the European…

High-redshift quasars are important to study galaxy and active galactic nuclei (AGN) evolution, test cosmological models, and study supermassive black hole growth. Optical searches for high-redshift sources have been very successful, but…

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

In our first paper we described three regions of the 9C survey of radio sources with the Ryle telescope at 15.2 GHz, constituting a total area of 520 deg^2 to a completeness limit of approximately 25 mJy. Here we report on a series of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. M. Waldram , G. G. Pooley , M. L. Davies , K. J. B. Grainge , P. F. Scott

During the operational life of the Italian/Dutch X-ray satellite (1996-2002), BeppoSAX, its two Wide Field Cameras performed observations that covered the full sky at different epochs. Although the majority of analysis performed on BeppoSAX…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 F. Capitanio , A. J. Bird , M. Fiocchi , S. Scaringi , P. Ubertini

We present the results of a recent re-reduction of the data from the Very Large Array (VLA) Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS). We used the VLSS catalog as a sky model to correct the ionospheric distortions in the data and create a new set of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 W. M. Lane , W. D. Cotton , S. van Velzen , T. E. Clarke , N. E. Kassim , J. F. Helmboldt , T. J. W. Lazio , A. S. Cohen

GHz-peaked spectrum (GPS) radio sources are thought to be young objects which later evolve into FR-I and FR-II radio galaxies. We have used the Australia Telescope 20GHz (AT20G) survey catalogue to select a uniform sample of GPS sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paul J. Hancock , Steven J. Tingay , Elaine M. Sadler , Chris Phillips , Adam T. Deller

The Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI surveys of bright extragalactic radio sources north of declination 35 deg were carried out between 1990 and 1995 using the Mark-II system, achieving images with a resolution of about 1 mas at 5 GHz. The CJ1…

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) offers unrivalled resolution in studies of celestial radio sources. The subjects of interest of the IAU Symposium No. 356, the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) of all types, constitute the major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Leonid I. Gurvits , Robert Beswick , Melvin Hoare , Ann Njeri , Jay Blanchard , Carla Sharpe , Adrian Tiplady , Aletha de Witt

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

As part of the GLOSTAR survey we have used the VLA in its B-configuration to observe the part of the Galactic plane between longitudes of 28d and 36d and latitudes from -1d to +1d at the C-band (4--8 GHz). To reduce the contamination of…

While conventional imaging in VLBI provides information only about the relative position between different features of a given source, phase-referenced observations can provide precise positional information with respect to an external…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Ros

We report on a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment on giant radio pulses (GPs) from the Crab pulsar in the radio 1.4 to 1.7 GHz range to demonstrate a VLBI technique for searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs). We carried out…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 K. Takefuji , T. Terasawa , T. Kondo , R. Mikami , H. Takeuchi , H. Misawa , F. Tsuchiya , H. Kita , M. Sekido

We present multi-frequency Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) follow-up observations of VLBA Imaging and Polarimetry Survey sources identified as likely compact symmetric objects (CSOs) or super-massive binary black holes (SBBHs). We also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 S. E. Tremblay , G. B. Taylor , A. A. Ortiz , C. D. Tremblay , J. F. Helmboldt , R. W. Romani