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A new catalogue of extended radio sources has been prepared based on arcminute-resolution 1420 MHz images from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS). The new catalogue provides both 1420 MHz and 408 MHz flux density measurements on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 C. R. Kerton , J. Murphy , J. Patterson

Among radio galaxies, compact sources are a class of objects not yet well understood, and most of them cannot be included in classical populations of compact radio sources (flat spectrum AGN or compact steep spectrum sources). Our main goal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 E. Liuzzo , S. Buttiglione , G. Giovannini , M. Giroletti , S. Capetti , G. B. Taylor

The VLBI Global Observing System, which is the next generation of geodetic VLBI and is called VGOS, observes simultaneously at four frequency bands in the range 3.0--10.7 GHz (expected to be extended to 14 GHz). Because source structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Ming H. Xu , Tuomas Savolainen , James M. Anderson , Niko Kareinen , Nataliya Zubko , Susanne Lunz , Harald Schuh

Aims. An efficient means of locating calibrator sources for International LOFAR is developed and used to determine the average density of usable calibrator sources on the sky for subarcsecond observations at 140 MHz. Methods. We used the…

Optical intelligent reflecting surface (OIRS) has attracted increasing attention due to its capability of overcoming signal blockages in visible light communication (VLC), an emerging technology for the next-generation advanced…

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Radio observations of strongly lensed objects are valuable as cosmological probes. Lensed radio sources have proven difficult to identify in large part due to the limited depth and angular resolution of the previous generation of radio sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-07 Michael N. Martinez , Yjan A. Gordon , Keith Bechtol , Gillian Cartwright , Peter S. Ferguson , Miranda Gorsuch

The morphologies of astronomical sources are highly complex, making it essential not only to classify the identified sources into their predefined categories but also to determine the sources that are most similar to a given query source.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Steven Ndungu , Trienko Grobler , Stefan J. Wijnholds , George Azzopardi

Announcing the release v2 of the MORX (Millions of Optical-Radio/X-ray Associations) catalogue which presents probable (40%-100% likelihood) radio/X-ray associations, including double radio lobes, to optical objects over the whole sky.…

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Cardiovascular MRI (CMR) is a non-invasive imaging modality that provides excellent soft-tissue contrast without the use of ionizing radiation. Physiological motions and limited speed of MRI data acquisition necessitate development of…

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The class of radio sources known as Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) is of particular interest in the study of the evolution of radio galaxies. CSOs are thought to be young (probably ~10^4 years), and a very high fraction of them exhibit HI…

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We describe a method to construct continuum spectra for radio sources on the basis of entries from various source catalogues in comparatively large error boxes around a given sky position. Sources from the UTR-2 catalogue (Braude et al.…

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Utilizing the latest and the most sensitive radio and optical catalogs, we completed a new blazar candidate catalog, Blazar Radio and Optical Survey (BROS), which includes 88,211 sources located at declination $\delta > -40^{\circ}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-04 Ryosuke Itoh , Yousuke Utsumi , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Kouji Ohta , Akihiro Doi , Tomoki Morokuma , Koji S. Kawabata , Yasuyuki T. Tanaka

The Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) on-board the INTEGRAL satellite has, as one of its scientific goals, the observation of a large number of variable sources previously selected. After almost 6 years of operations, OMC has monitored more…

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The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) observes most of the sky every night in search of dangerous asteroids. Its data are also used to search for photometric variability, where sensitivity to variability is limited by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 J. L. Tonry , L. Denneau , H. Flewelling , A. N. Heinze , C. A. Onken , S. J. Smartt , B. Stalder , H. J. Weiland , C. Wolf

Observations of present and future X-ray telescopes include a large number of serendipidious sources of unknown types. They are a rich source of knowledge about X-ray dominated astronomical objects, their distribution, and their evolution.…

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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short, intense radio signals from distant astrophysical sources, and their accurate localisation is crucial for probing their origins and utilising them as cosmological tools. This study focuses on improving the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Akhil Jaini , Adam T. Deller , Yuanming Wang , Emil Lenc , Marcin Glowacki

We present the second catalogue of accurate positions and correlated flux densities for 1100 compact extragalactic radio sources that were not observed before 2008 at high angular resolution. The catalogue spans the declination range -90…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Leonid Petrov , Alet de Witt , Elaine M. Sadler , Chris Phillips , Shinji Horiuchi

A complete sample of bright ROSAT sources with hard XRB-like spectra in the Galactic Plane (|b| < 15 deg.) has been tentatively identified with radio sources in the GB6/PMN/NVSS surveys, and subsequently observed with the Australia…

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