Abstract about the LCS at the IVS meeting

[Leonid Petrov <Leonid.Petrov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues,

  I am going to submit the following abstract of the poster 
presentation at the IVS General Assembly meeting in Tasmania
in February 2010:

LBA Calibrator Survey of the Southern Sky.

Leonid Petrov         ADNET Systems, Inc./NASA GSFC, USA
Chris Phillips        Australia Telescope National Facility, Australia
Alessandra Bertarini  Max Planck Inst. fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
Roy Booth             Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomical Observatory, South Africa
Sarah Burke-Spolaor   Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Ed Fomalont           National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA
Ron Ekers             Australia Telescope National Facility, Australia
Kee-Tae Kim           Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute, South Korea
Tara Murphy           University of Sydney, Australia
Sergei Pogrebenko     Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe
Elaine Sadler         University of Sydney, Australia
Anastasios Tzioumis   Australia Telescope National Facility, Australia 

The objective of the project that started in 2008 is to observe at 8.4 GHz 
a list of candidate flat spectrum radio sources with declination < -40? 
with using the Australian LBA and to 1) determine their positions 
with milliarcsec accuracy; 2) measure their correlated flux densities; 
3) determine their suitability as calibrators for phase referencing 
observations and as targets for astrometry and geodesy observations. 
The overall goal of the project is to match the density of phase calibrators 
in the southern hemisphere to the calibrator density in the northern 
hemisphere in order to make feasible phase referencing observations at the
southern hemisphere. The current status and preliminary results 
of the project are presented.


The deadline for abstract submission is 2009.12.02, so I would like to
submit it on Tuesday 2009.12.01. If you have comments/amendments,
please send them to me before that date.

Sincerely,
Leonid Petrov
27-NOV-2009 23:59:19