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Extracting polarimetric information from very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data is demanding but vital for understanding the synchrotron radiation process and the magnetic fields of celestial objects, such as active galactic nuclei…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Jong-Seo Kim , Jakob Roth , Jongho Park , Jack D. Livingston , Philipp Arras , Torsten A. Enßlin , Michael Janssen , J. Anton Zensus , Andrei P. Lobanov

The arrival of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will revitalise all aspects of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astronomy at the lower frequencies. In the last decade there have been huge strides towards routinely achieving high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson , Gabor Orosz , Hiroshi Imai , Sandor Frey

In this paper, we propose to use the scatter of celestial pole offset (CPO) series obtained from VLBI observations as a measure of the accuracy of the celestial reference frame (CRF) realizations. Several scatter indices (SIs) including…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-01-03 Zinovy Malkin

This paper presents the sixth part to the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey. It contains the positions and maps of 264 sources of which 169 were not previously observed with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-21 L. Petrov , Y. Y. Kovalev , E. B. Fomalont , D. Gordon

We revisit the "Cluster-Cluster" or multi-view Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry (VLBI) technique from the perspective of its synergy with the multi-beam features inherent in the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)and its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 M. J. Rioja , R. Dodson , R. W. Porcas , D. Ferris , J. Reynolds , T. Sasao , R. T. Schilizzi

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 introduce the cross spectrum based FRB (Fast Radio Burst) search method for VLBI observation. This method optimizes the fringe fitting scheme in geodetic VLBI data post processing, which fully utilizes the cross spectrum fringe phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-06 Lei Liu , Fengxian Tong , Weimin Zheng , Juan Zhang , Li Tong

We investigate a sample of 3412 {\it International Celestial Reference Frame} (ICRF3) extragalactic radio-loud sources with accurate positions determined by VLBI in the S/X band, mostly active galactic nuclei (AGN) and quasars, which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Valeri V. Makarov , Ciprian T. Berghea , Julien Frouard , Alan Fey , Henrique R. Schmitt

In order to directly study the role of magnetic fields in the immediate vicinity of protostars, we use Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), aiming at the detection of non-thermal centimetric radio emission. This is technically the only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jan Forbrich , Maria Massi , Eduardo Ros , Andreas Brunthaler , Karl Menten

Context. It will soon become possible to directly link the most accurate radio reference frame with the Gaia optical reference frame using many common extragalactic objects. It is important to know the level of coincidence between the radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Orosz , S. Frey

It is expected that the European Space Agency mission Gaia will make possible to determine coordinates in the optical domain of more than 500000 quasars. In 2006, a radio astrometry project was launched with the overall goal to make…

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

Several thousand fast radio burst (FRB) sources have been discovered using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope, as part of the CHIME/FRB project. Currently, CHIME/FRB is able to localize most FRBs to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Aaron B. Pearlman

This work aims to explore the possibilities of determining the long-period part of the precession-nutation of the Earth with techniques other than very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). Lunar laser ranging (LLR) is chosen for its…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Yu-Ting Cheng , Jia-Cheng Liu , Zi Zhu

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

Between 1997 and 2004 several observing runs were conducted mainly with the CTIO 0.9 m to image ICRF counterparts (mostly QSOs) in order to determine accurate optical positions. Contemporary to these deep CCD images the same fields were…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Norbert Zacharias , Marion I. Zacharias

A crucial part of a space mission for very-long baseline interferometery (VLBI), which is the technique capable of providing the highest resolution images in astronomy, is orbit determination of the mission's space radio telescope(s). In…

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

I present an overview of important results obtained using high-resolution very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of X-ray binary systems. These results derive from both astrometric observations and resolved imaging of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James Miller-Jones

From a combination of MERLIN (Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network) and global VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) observations of the starburst galaxy M82, images of 36 discrete sources at resolutions ranging from ~3 to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Fenech , R. Beswick , T. W. B. Muxlow , A. Pedlar , M. K. Argo