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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 A. Müller , J. -U. Pott , A. Mérand , R. Abuter , F. Delplancke-Ströbele , Th. Henning , R. Köhler , Ch. Leinert , S. Morel , T. Phan Duc , E. Pozna , A. Ramirez , J. Sahlmann , C. Schmid

The paper describes a Space-VLBI observation of the 22 GHz H2O masers in the massive star-forming region G25.65+1.05, using the 10-m space antenna of Radioastron together with the ground-based VLBA array. Two observing epochs at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-03 N. N. Shakhvorostova , A. V. Alakoz , I. E. Val'tts , I. D. Litovchenko

We describe a new method which achieves high precision Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry in observations at millimeter wavelengths. It combines fast frequency-switching observations, to correct for the dominant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson

In this Letter, we report detections of SiO v=3 J=1--0 maser emission in very long baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations towards 4 out of 12 long-period variable stars: WX Psc, R Leo, W Hya, and T Cep. The detections towards WX Psc…

We present results of a high resolution survey of OH masers in Galactic Star Forming Regions in order to study the maser emission and establish a list of suitable candidates for higher resolution instruments follow up. We used the Very Long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Migenes , V. Slysh , I. E. Val'tts

Oxygen-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars can be intense emitters of SiO ($v$=1 and 2, J=1$\rightarrow$0) and H$_2$O maser lines at 43 and 22 GHz, respectively. VLBI observations of the maser emission provide a unique tool to probe…

We present results on multifrequency Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) monitoring observations of the double-image gravitationally lensed blazar JVAS B0218+357. Multi-epoch observations started less than one month after the gamma-ray flare…

We report on single-dish monitoring as well as extremely high angular resolution observations of the flaring H2O maser in the Seyfert 2 galaxy Mrk 348. The H2O line is redshifted by ~130 km/s with respect to the systemic velocity, is very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Peck , H. Falcke , C. Henkel , K. M. Menten

We explored an efficient method to identify evolved stars with oxygen-rich envelopes in the late AGB or post-AGB phase of stellar evolution, which include a rare class of objects - the "water fountains". Our method considers the OH and H2O…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Bosco Yung , Jun-ichi Nakashima , Christian Henkel

On January 10 and 13, 2001, Venus was observed for the first time with an X-ray astronomy satellite. The observation, performed with the ACIS-I and LETG/ACIS-S instruments on Chandra, yielded data of high spatial, spectral, and temporal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Dennerl , V. Burwitz , J. Englhauser , C. Lisse , S. Wolk

Accurate beam modeling is important in many radio astronomy applications. In this paper, we focus on beam modeling for 21-cm intensity mapping experiments using radio interferometers, though the techniques also apply to single dish…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Michael J. Wilensky , Philip Bull , Nicolas Fagnoni

Between 1987 and 2023 we carried out single-dish monitoring campaigns of water-maser emission at 22 GHz in the circumstellar envelopes (CSEs) of four stars: RCas, oCet, RLeo and ChiCyg. The variability in integrated flux in RCas and oCet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Jan Brand , Dieter Engels , Alessandra Zanichelli , Sandra Etoka

We report the first detection of submillimeter water maser emission toward water-fountain nebulae, which are post-AGB stars that exhibit high-velocity water masers. Using APEX we found emission in the ortho-H2O (10_29-9_36) transition at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 D. Tafoya , R. Franco-Hernández , W. H. T. Vlemmings , A. F. Pérez-Sánchez , G. Garay

Using the Very Large Array (VLA), we observed all three of the 6-cm lines of the doublet Pi 1/2, J=1/2 state of OH with sub-arcsecond resolution (about 0.4 arcsec) in W49A. While the spatial distribution and the range in velocities of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Patrick Palmer , W. M. Goss

We used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the European VLBI Network (EVN) to perform phase-referenced VLBI observations of the three most powerful maser transitions associated with the high-mass star-forming region G28.87+0.07: the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. J. Li , L. Moscadelli , R. Cesaroni , R. S. Furuya , Y. Xu , T. Usuda , K. M. Menten , M. Pestalozzi , D. Elia , E. Schisano

We present two algorithms to identify and flag radio frequency interference (RFI) in radio interferometric imaging data. The first algorithm utilizes the redundancy of visibilities inside a UV cell in the visibility plane to identify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Srikrishna Sekhar , Ramana Athreya

The constructive and destructive interference in different layers of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) detector arrays modulate the detected signal as a function of wavelength. Additionally, sources of…