The Fifth VLBA Calibrator Survey: VCS5

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dc.creatorKovalev, Y. Y.
dc.creatorPetrov, L.
dc.creatorFomalont, E. B.
dc.creatorGordon, D.
dc.date2006-07-23
dc.date2006-11-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:25:48Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:25:48Z
dc.descriptionThis paper presents the fifth part of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey (VCS), containing 569 sources not observed previously with very long baseline interferometry in geodetic or absolute astrometry programs. This campaign has two goals: (i) to observe additional sources which, together with previous survey results, form a complete sample, (ii) to find new strong sources suitable as phase calibrators. This VCS extension was based on three 24-hour VLBA observing sessions in 2005. It detected almost all extragalactic flat-spectrum sources with correlated flux density greater than 200 mJy at 8.6 GHz above declination -30 degrees which were not observed previously. Source positions with milliarcsecond accuracy were derived from astrometric analysis of ionosphere-free combinations of group delays determined from the 2.3 GHz and 8.6 GHz frequency bands. The VCS5 catalog of source positions, plots of correlated flux density versus projected baseline length, contour plots and FITS files of naturally weighted CLEAN images, as well as calibrated visibility function files are available on the Web at http://vlbi.gsfc.nasa.gov/vcs5
dc.description7 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal; minor changes to the text are made; both tables in electronic form can be extracted from the preprint source
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607524
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607524
dc.identifierAstron.J.133:1236-1242,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1086/511157
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/195626
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe Fifth VLBA Calibrator Survey: VCS5
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