VLBI global solution rfc_2018b
Solution rfc_2018b was replaced with rfc_2018c
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Astrometric global solution rfc_2018b used all available VLBI observations
at 8.6GHz and 2.2 GHz, as well at 5 and 22GHz from 1980.04.11 through
2018.07.12, in total 6868 observing sessions, including the following 630
observing sessions of 30 dedicated absolute astrometry programs:
- 21 observing sessions of VLBA Calibrator Survey1--6;
- 17 observing sessions of Densification of the VLBA Calibrator Survey (VCS7);
- 10 observing sessions of Densification of the VLBA Calibrator Survey (VCS8);
- 99 observing sessions of Densification of the VLBA Calibrator Survey (VCS9);
- 18 observing sessions of the Australian LBA Calibrator Survey;
- 9 observing sessions of VCS-ii program;
- 3 observing sessions of the Northern Polar Cap program;
- 96 observing sessions of the VLBI 2MASS radioastronomy project;
- 16 observing sessions of the
VLBA Imaging and Polarimetry Survey (VIPS);
- 162 regular geodetic VLBA sessions under the RDV program;
- 26 observing sessions in 1FGL, 2FGL, and 3FGL AGNs at parsec scales
(s3111,s4195,bs241,s5272,s7104);
- 3 observing sessions of VLBA Galactic Plan Survey;
- 1 observing session of the EVN Galactic Plan Survey
at K-band;
- 14 observing sessions of the K/Q survey;
- 5 observing sessions of the Improving the K-band Celestial Reference Frame in the North program (BJ083);
- 33 observing sessions of the VLBA calibrator survey for BeSSeL project (br145);
- 2 observing sessions of the Bologna survey of near galaxies (bg069,bg094);
- 2 observing sessions of the VLBA survey of flat-Spectrum FIRST Sources (bh019, bu007);
- 3 observing sessions of the CJ snap-shot survey with the VLBA (bb119);
- 2 EVN observing sessions for the ICRF densification (ec013,ec017);
- 8 VLBA+EVN observing sessions of the survey of optically bright quasars;
- 12 VLBA observing sessions of the survey for parallax measurements (br149);
- 4 observing sessions of the low luminosity gamma-ray blazars
survey (bt110)
- 4 observing sessions of an undefined programs (bb041,bm252)
- 8 observing sessions of the VLBI Ecliptic Plane Survey
with the VLBA
- 17 observing sessions of the VLBI Ecliptic Plane Survey
with the CVN
- 2 observing sessions of SOFUS program
- 8 observing session of SOAP program
- 21 observing session of th VLBA Survey of unassociated gamma-ray objects
in the 7-year Fermi/LAT catalog
- 2 observing sessions of Probing milliarcsecond optical structure through
VLBI observations of Gaia detected AGNs
In total, 15,242,278 estimates of group delays were used in
LSQ solutions.
Positions of 15,155 sources were adjusted in 6 least square solutions
for X/S, X/C, X-band, S-band, C-band, and K-band solutions. Currently, this
is the most complete catalogue of positions of compact radio sources.
Technical description of the solution is available
here.
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Astrometric Results
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rfc_2018b catalogue in
HTML form (39 Mb). NB: loading the catalogue
takes time, please be patient. The catalogue contains source
positions, their uncertainties, estimates of the total VLBA flux
density, the VLBA flux density of unresolved components, naturally
weighted CLEAN images in postscript and in fits format at X and
S-band; plots of the correlated flux density as a function of the
length of the baseline projection to the source plane; fits files
with calibrated uv data. Images and estimates of
correlated flux densities are available for 13,371 sources from this
catalogue.
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rfc_2018b catalogue in ASCII format.
(2 Mb)
The catalogue contains source positions, their uncertainties,
total VLBA flux density, the VLBA flux density of unresolved
components.
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rfc_2018b catalogue in key-format
format. The catalogue contains source positions.
This catalogue can be used as a priori file for
VLBI SCHED scheduling software package.
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rfc_2018b catalogue in blokq
format. The catalogue contains source positions and
their uncertainties. This catalogue can be used as a priori
file for library VTD and
VLBI analysis software package Post-Solve.
- Interactive
VLBI calibrator search tool among sources in the rfc_2018b
catalogue.
Astrophysics Information
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127,948
Images and calibrated uv data
for
20472
compact sources at S, C, X, U, K, Q, and W bands in one compressed
tar.bz2 file is available
(104 Gb). For many sources images for more than one epoch are available.
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Single dish spectrum
for 13,861 sources from
published results determined with the use of the CATS database.
NB: the estimates of flux density are NOT simultaneous. Since
the majority of sources are variable, these estimates of the spectrum
are not always reliable. Estimates of spectrum for some sources
may be wrong due to errors in the database of singe dish flux
measurements.
Geophysics Results
Station positions and velocities
Positions of 187 stations and their velocities were estimated as global
parameters. Station positions are given on epoch 2000.01.01.
Boundary conditions were selected in such a way that source positions,
station positions and velocities are compatible with USNO series of the
Earth orientation parameters
finals.all and
finals.daily.
Antenna axis offsets
Antenna axis offsets from LSQ estimation
rfc_2018b.axof
Earth orientation parameters
Pole coordinates X, Y, UT1 angle, and their rate, daily correction to the
nutation in longitude and nutation in obliquity were estimated for each
session separately.
Statistics
Miscellaneous
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