2007b_astro catalogue

2007b_astro catalogue

2007b_astro catalogue contains positions, estimates of correlated flux density and images of compact extragalactic radio sources from reanalysis of 27 VLBA calibrator survey observing sessions in 1994-2007 and from 4385 experiments for geophysics and absolute astrometry since 1979.08.03 through 2007.05.31, in 6.0 million observations. Refer to the home page of the solution for more details.

Credit

If you use positions and/or estimates of correlated flux densities and/or images and/or calibrated visibility data from this catalogue in your work, for example, for scheduling phase referencing observations, you are encouraged to include in your paper references to original publications:

Beasley, A.J., Gordon, D., Peck, A.B., Petrov, L., MacMillan, D.S., Fomalont, E.B., and Ma,C. 2002, Astrophys. J. Sup., The VLBA Calibrator Survey - VCS1, 141, 13 Full text: 2002ApJS..141...13B;

Fomalont, E., Petrov, L., McMillan, D.S., Gordon, D., Ma, C., The Second VLBA Calibrator Survey: VCS2, 2003, Astron. J., 126, 2562 Full text: 2003AJ....126.2562F;

Petrov, L., Kovalev, Yu.Y., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D. The Third VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS3, Astron. J., 2005, 129, 1163 Full text: 2005AJ....129.1163P;

Petrov, L., Kovalev, Yu.Y., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D. The Fourth VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS4, Astron. J., 2006, 131 1872 Full text: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2006AJ....131.1872P">2006AJ....131.1872P;

Kovalev, Yu.Y., Petrov, L., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D. The Fifth VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS5, Astron. J., 2007, vol. 133, 1236 Full text: 2007AJ....133.1236K

VCS bibliography in LaTeX format.

Specific positions in this table can be referred as "L. Petrov, solution 2007b_astro (unpublished, available on the Web at http://vlbi.gsfc.nasa.gov/solutions/2007b_astro)". These positions differ from positions in the original publications and reflect recent improvements in analysis technique and fixes of previous blunders in analysys.

All images from the VLBA Calibrator Survey Campaigns were produced by Yury Y. Kovalev.
Other X/S images from analysis of VLBA/VLBA+ experiments were produced (in alphabetic order) by