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The highest-redshift quasars are still rare and valuable objects for observational astrophysics and cosmology. They provide important constraints on the growth of the earliest supermassive black holes in the Universe, and information on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 S. Frey , L. I. Gurvits , Z. Paragi , K. E. Gabanyi

We present a new analysis of Kepler-21, the brightest (V = 8.5) Kepler system with a known transiting exoplanet, Kepler-21 b. Kepler-21 b is a radius valley planet ($R = 1.6\pm 0.2 R_{\oplus}$) with an Earth-like composition (8.38$\pm$1.62…

Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry is a radio astronomy technique distinguished by a record-high angular resolution reaching single-digit microseconds of arc. The paper provides a brief account of the history of developments of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Leonid I. Gurvits

We present the results of a survey of radio continuum sources near the Galactic plane using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Our observations are designed to identify compact extragalactic sources of milliarcsecond size that can be used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Immer , A. Brunthaler , M. J. Reid , A. Bartkiewicz , Y. K. Choi , K. M. Menten , L. Moscadelli , A. Sanna , Y. W. Wu , Y. Xu , B. Zhang , X. W. Zheng

We present the results of spectroscopic observations of the optical counterparts of 47 southern radio sources from the candidate International Celestial Reference Catalogue (ICRC), as part of a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 O. Titov , D. L. Jauncey , H. M. Johnston , R. W. Hunstead , L. Christensen

We report radio SETI observations on a large number of known exoplanets and other nearby star systems using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). Observations were made over about 19000 hours from May 2009 to Dec 2015. This search focused on…

Context: To investigate the differences between positions, as determined by optical (direct imaging) and Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) techniques, of extragalactic sources listed in the second realization of the International…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. I. B. Camargo , A. H. Andrei , M. Assafin , R. Vieira-Martins , D. N. da Silva Neto

We present a detailed analysis of the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) detection of the radio remnant of supernova 1987A. The VLBI data taken in 2007 and 2008 at 1.4 and 1.7 GHz, respectively, provide images sensitive to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. -Y. Ng , T. M. Potter , L. Staveley-Smith , S. Tingay , B. M. Gaensler , C. Phillips , A. K. Tzioumis , G. Zanardo

We investigate statistical and individual astrophysical properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), such as parsec-scale flux density, core dominance, angular and linear sizes, maximum observed brightness temperatures of VLBI core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev

This work devotes to investigations of solar corona and solar wind plasma by the method of radio probing with using of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). We performed the theoretical calculation of power spectrum of interferometric…

Differential phase observations with a near-IR interferometer offer a way to obtain spectra of extrasolar planets. The method makes use of the wavelength dependence of the interferometer phase of the planet/star system, which depends both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Viki Joergens , Andreas Quirrenbach

Few spectra of directly-imaged exoplanets have been obtained in the mid-infrared (> 3 $\mu$m). This region is particularly rich in molecular spectral signatures, whose measurements can help recover atmospheric parameters and provide a…

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

The spatially resolved broad-band spectroscopy with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is one of the few methods that can probe the physical conditions inside blazar jets. We report on measurements of the magnetic field strength in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-19 K. V. Sokolovsky , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. P. Lobanov , T. Savolainen , A. B. Pushkarev , M. Kadler

Multi-epoch GHz Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data of the radio-loud quasar J1101+7225 were analyzed to estimate the proper motion of extended optically thin jet components. Two components separated from the core could be mapped…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. -U. Pott , A. Eckart , M. Krips , T. P. Krichbaum , S. Britzen , W. Alef , J. A. Zensus

We present Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of the radio source J1625+4134 at 22 and 15 GHz and analyze them in concurrence with other existing VLBI data on this source. The high resolution images at 15 and 22 GHz show a short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Jiang , J. F. Zhou , X. Y. Hong , L. I. Gurvits , Z. -Q. Shen , Y. J. Chen

The KVN(Korean VLBI Network)-style simultaneous multi-frequency receiving mode is demonstrated to be promising for mm-VLBI observations. Recently, other Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) facilities all over the globe start to…

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

Extension of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) to observing wavelengths shorter than 1.3mm provides exceptional angular resolution (~20 micro arcsec) and access to new spectral regimes for the study of astrophysical phenomena. To…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Sheperd Doeleman , Tao Mai , Alan Rogers , John Hartnett , Michael Tobar , Nitin Nand

We report a radio SETI search for periodic, kHz-wide signals from five of the nearest stars observable with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Using the 19-beam L-band receiver (1.05-1.45 GHz), we obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Yu Hu , Bo-Lun Huang , Vishal Gajjar , Xiao-Hang Luan , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang