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Radio continuum surveys of the Galactic plane can find and characterize HII regions, supernova remnants (SNRs), planetary nebulae (PNe), and extragalactic sources. A number of surveys at high angular resolution (<25") at different…

Radio-loud quasars at high redshift (z > 4) are rare objects in the Universe and rarely observed with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). But some of them have flux density sufficiently high for monitoring of their apparent position.…

Our previous work identified a class of SDSS quasars exhibiting multiple Gaia detections, classifying them as candidates for various astrophysical systems such as quasar-star pairs, dual quasars, and gravitationally lensed quasars. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-21 Yingkang Zhang , Tao An , Xiang Ji , Zhenya Zheng , Yuanqi Liu , Qiqi Wu , Ruqiu Lin , Shilong Liao

We have selected a field from the VLA FIRST Survey which is typical in all aspects except one: it contains a bright, but extremely compact VLBI calibrator - J1159+291. 127 unresolved FIRST sources with $S_{FIRST}\ge 10$ mJy lie within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Garrett , Simon T. Garrington

The current realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) comprises a total of 717 extragalactic radio sources distributed over the entire sky. An observing program has been developed to densify the ICRF in the northern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Charlot , A. L. Fey , C. S. Jacobs , C. Ma , O. J. Sovers , A. Baudry

A small sample of 7 southern Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) radio sources has been selected as part of the study of a larger flux-limited complete sample of radio sources. High resolution images, using the VLBI network in the southern…

We describe a program to identify optical counterparts to radio sources from the VLA FIRST survey using the Cambridge APM scans of the POSS-I plates. We use radio observations covering 4150 square degrees of the north Galactic cap to a 20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard G. McMahon , Richard L. White , David J. Helfand , Robert H. Becker

The VLBI technique can image compact radio sources with resolutions of the order of the milliarcsecond and can determine astrometrically relative positions with submilliarcsecond precisions. We determined the angular separations among the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Ros , J. M. Marcaide , J. C. Guirado , M. A. Perez-Torres

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 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…

The radio spectral index is a powerful probe for classifying cosmic radio sources and understanding the origin of the radio emission. Combining data at 147 MHz and 1.4 GHz from the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS) and the NRAO VLA Sky Survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 F. de Gasperin , H. T. Intema , D. A. Frail

We employed the Very Large Array (VLA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in C configuration to map 39 ultraluminous IRAS galaxies at 6~cm and 20~cm, at resolutions of ~ 4" and 15", respectively, and 24 sources at 6~cm with in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Crawford , Jon Marr , Bruce Partridge , Michael Strauss

We report here on multi-frequency VLBA observations of three extragalactic sources within 1 degree of the Galactic Center. These sources have been used as astrometric reference sources for VLA and VLBA determinations of the proper motion of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Geoffrey C. Bower , Donald C. Backer , Richard A. Sramek

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 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 full polarization Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations at 5 GHz and 15 GHz of 24 compact active galactic nuclei (AGN). These sources were observed as part of a pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of conducting a…

As a step toward investigating the parsec-scale properties of faint extragalactic radio sources, the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) was used at 5.0 GHz to obtain phase-referenced images of 76 sources in the NOAO Bootes field. These 76…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Wrobel , G. B. Taylor , T. A. Rector , S. T. Myers , C. D. Fassnacht

We report the results of optical identification of a sample of RC catalog radio sources with the FIRST and SDSS surveys. For 320 sources identified with NVSS and FIRST objects we perform optical identification with the SDSS survey. When…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 O. P. Zhelenkova , A. I. Kopylov

Radio sources of the RC catalog produced in 1980--1985 at RATAN-600 radio telescope based on a deep survey of a sky strip centered on the declination of the SS 433 source are optically identified in the region overlapping with FIRST and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-21 O. P. Zhelenkova , A. I. Kopylov