Second epoch VLBA Calibrator Survey (VCS-II) Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Gordon D.
  2. Jacobs C.
  3. Beasley A.
  4. Peck A.
  5. Gaume R.
  6. Charlot P.
  7. Fey A.,Ma C.
  8. Titov O.
  9. Boboltz D.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Six very successful Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) calibrator survey campaigns were run between 1994 and 2007 to build up a large list of compact radio sources with positions precise enough for use as very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) phase reference calibrators. We report on the results of a second epoch VLBA Calibrator Survey campaign (VCS-II) in which 2400 VCS sources were re-observed in the X and S bands in order to improve the upcoming third realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF3) as well as to improve their usefulness as VLBI phase reference calibrators. In this survey, some 2062 previously detected sources and 324 previously undetected sources were detected and revised positions are presented. Average position uncertainties for the re-observed sources were reduced from 1.14 and 1.98mas to 0.24 and 0.41mas in R.A. and decl., respectively, or by nearly a factor of 5. Minimum detected flux values were approximately 15 and 28mJy in the X and S bands, respectively, and median total fluxes are approximately 230 and 280mJy. The vast majority of these sources are flat-spectrum sources, with ~82% having spectral indices greater than -0.5.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. very-long-baseline-interferometry
  3. radio-sources
  4. quasars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016AJ....151..154G
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/151/154
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51510154

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History

2016-07-28T12:03:28Z
Resource record created
2016-07-28T12:03:28Z
Created
2020-09-01T13:46:10Z
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