- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/432/1294
- Title:
- Fermi unassociated sources ATCA observations
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/432/1294
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report results of the first phase of observations with Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at 5 and 9GHz of the fields around 411 {gamma}-ray sources with declinations less than +10{deg} detected with Fermi but marked as unassociated in the 2FGL catalogue. We have detected 424 sources with flux densities in a range of 2mJy to 6Jy in the fields of 283 {gamma}-ray sources within their position error ellipses drawn to cover the area of 99 per cent probability of their localisation. Of them, 146 objects were detected in both bands. We found 84 sources with spectral index flatter than -0.5 in our sample. The majority of detected sources are weaker than 100 mJy and for this reason were not found in previous surveys. Approximately 1/3 of our sample, 128 objects, have the probability of being associated by more than 10 times than the probability of being a background source found in the vicinity of a {gamma}-ray object by chance. We present the catalogue of positions of these sources, estimates of their flux densities and spectral indices when available.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/98/1
- Title:
- First Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/98/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results from the first Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI survey (the CJ1 survey). The CJ1 sample includes 135 radio sources with total flux density 1.3Jy>S_6cm>=0.7Jy, declination delta_1950>=35deg, and Galactic latitude |b^II|>10deg. It extends the flux density limit of the complete "PR" sample studied by Pearson & Readhead from 1.3 to 0.7Jy and increases the total number of sources from 65 to 200. The complete survey includes VLBI images at both lambda-18 and 6cm of all objects in the extended sample that have cores strong enough to be mapped with the Mark II VLBI system. These images provide a large enough sample to study, for example, the variety of morphologies exhibited by compact radio sources, cosmological evolution, superluminal motion, and misalignment between parsec-scale and kiloparsec-scale radio structures. In this paper we present lambda-18cm VLBI observations of 56 CJ1 and 31 PR sources made in 1990-1991, including images of 82 sources. The observations were made with a "snapshot" technique in which each source was observed in three 20-30-minute scans using an array of 12-16 antennas. The images have resolution 3-10mas and dynamic range greater than 100:1. Later papers in the series will present the remaining lambda-18cm observations, the lambda-6cm observations, and the analysis and interpretation of the results.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/559/A95
- Title:
- Fitted proper motions for the DR solution
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/559/A95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We propose new estimates of the secular aberration drift, mainly due to the rotation of the Solar System about the Galactic center, based on up-to-date VLBI observations and and improved method of outlier elimination. We fit degree-2 vector spherical harmonics to extragalactic radio source proper motion field derived from geodetic VLBI observations spanning 1979-2013. We pay particular attention to the outlier elimination procedure to remove outliers from (i) radio source coordinate time series and (ii) the proper motion sample. We obtain more accurate values of the Solar system acceleration compared to those in our previous paper. The acceleration vector is oriented towards the Galactic center within ~7{deg}. The component perpendicular to the Galactic plane is statistically insignificant. We show that an insufficient cleaning of the data set can lead to strong variations in the dipole amplitude and orientation, and statistically biased results.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/52/631
- Title:
- Galactic plane VERA survey
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/52/631
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In order to search for new VLBI sources in the galactic plane that can be used as phase reference sources in differential VLBI, we conducted 22GHz observations of radio sources in the galactic plane using the Japanese VLBI Network (J-Net). We have observed 267 VLBI source candidates selected from existing radio surveys and have detected 93 sources at a signal-to-noise ratio larger than 5. While 42 of the 93 detected sources had already been detected with VLBI at relatively lower frequency (typically 2 to 8GHz), the remaining 51 are found to be new VLBI sources detected for the first time. These are located within |b|<=5{deg}, and have a large number of galactic maser sources around them. Thus, they are potential candidates for phase reference sources for VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA), which is the first VLBI array dedicated to phase-referencing VLBI astrometry aimed at measuring the parallax and proper motion of maser sources in the whole Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/364/391
- Title:
- 86GHz VLBI survey of compact radio sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/364/391
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- File table1 contains the list of observed sources, providing the source coordinates (J2000) and redshift, detection status, type, optical magnitude, and brightness temperature of the radio emission. File table4 contains the description of the VLBI data, and provide the observed total and correlated flux densities, the parameters of single gaussian component model fits, and the parameters of hybrid images of the observed sources. File table5 contains multicomponent model fits for the sources with detected extended structures and the brightness temperatures derived from these model fits.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/159
- Title:
- Global 86GHz VLBI survey of compact radio sources
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/136/159
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a large 86GHz global very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) survey of compact radio sources. The main goal of the survey is to increase by factors of 3-5 the total number of objects accessible for future 3mm VLBI imaging. The survey observations reach a baseline sensitivity of 0.1Jy and an image sensitivity of better than 10mJy/beam. A total of 127 compact radio sources have been observed. The observations have yielded images for 109 sources, extending the database of the sources imaged at 86GHz with VLBI observation by a factor of 5, and only six sources have not been detected. The remaining 12 objects have been detected but could not be imaged due to insufficient closure phase information.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/619/A48
- Title:
- GOODS-N AGN VLBI detect. & radio properties
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/619/A48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Conventional radio surveys of deep fields ordinarily have arc-second scale resolutions often insufficient to reliably separate radio emission in distant galaxies originating from star-formation and AGN-related activity. Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) can offer a solution by identifying only the most compact radio emitting regions in galaxies at cosmological distances where the high brightness temperatures (in excess of 10^5^K) can only be reliably attributed to AGN activity.The newest VLBI techniques are used to completely cover an entire 7.5' radius area to milliarcsecond resolutions, while bright radio sources (S>0.1mJy) are targeted up to 25-arcmin from the pointing centre. Multi-source self-calibration, and a primary beam model for the EVN array are used to correct for residual phase errors and primary beam attenuation respectively. This paper presents the largest catalogue of VLBI detected sources in GOODS-N comprising of 31 compact radio sources across a redshift range of 0.11-3.44, almost three times more than previous VLBI surveys in this field.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/619/A88
- Title:
- High cadence polarization monitoring of OJ287
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/619/A88
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a multifrequency, dense radio monitoring program of the blazar OJ287 using the 100-m Effelsberg radio telescope. The program aims to test different binary supermassive black hole (SMBH) scenarios and studying the physical conditions in the central region of this bright blazar. Between December 2015 and January 2017 (MJD 57370-57785), the radio electric vector position angle (EVPA) showed a large clockwise (CW) rotation by about 340{deg} with a mean rate of -1.04{deg}/day. Based on concurrent polarized Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) data, the rotation seems to originate within the jet core at 43GHz. Optical polarization data show a similar monotonic CW EVPA rotation of about -1.1{deg}/day, superposed by shorter and faster rotations of about 7.8{deg}/day, mainly in the CW sense. When combined, the single dish, VLBI and optical polarization data are consistent with a polarized emission component propagating on a helical trajectory within a bent jet. We constrained the helix arc length (0.26pc) and radius (about 0.04pc) and the projected jet bending arc length (about 1.9-7.6pc). The helical trajectory covers only a part of the jet width, possibly its spine. In addition, we found a stable polarized component with EVPA (-10{deg}) perpendicular to the large scale jet, suggesting dominance of the poloidal magnetic field component.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/445/845
- Title:
- Implications of the Galactic aberration for CRF
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/445/845
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- During the last few years, much attention has been paid to the astrometric implications of the galactic aberration in proper motions (GA). This effect causes systematic errors in astrometric measurements at a {mu}as level. Some authors consider it so serious that it requires redefinition of the Celestial Reference Frame (CRF). We argue that such attention to the GA is exaggerated too much. It is just a small astrometric correction that must be taken into account during highly accurate astrometric and geodetic data processing. The accuracy of this correction depends on the accuracy of the Galactic rotation parameters and, for most applications, on the accuracy of the rotation matrix between Galactic and equatorial systems. Our analysis has shown that our current knowledge of these two factors is sufficient to compute the correction of the GA with an accuracy better than 10 per cent. The remaining effect at the level of a few tenths {mu}as/yr is negligible nowadays. Another consequence of introducing the GA correction is the necessity to return to classical astrometric modelling of the extragalactic radio source position - derived by very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) - by the linear trend model. Changing the current paradigm of the VLBI-derived CRF, based on the assumption of zero motion of radio sources, to classical one leads to bias in the radio source positions of up to several tens of {mu}as for a catalogue at epoch J2000.0.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/323
- Title:
- International Celestial Reference Frame 2, ICRF2
- Short Name:
- I/323
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This Technical Note describes the generation by an international team of the second realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF2) at radio wavelengths using nearly 30 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. ICRF2 contains precise positions of 3414 compact radio astronomical sources, more than five times the number as in the first ICRF, hereafter ICRF1. Further, the ICRF2 is found to have a noise floor of only 40{mu}as, some 5-6 times better than ICRF1, and an axis stability of 10{mu}as, nearly twice as stable as ICRF1. Alignment of ICRF2 with the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS) was made using 138 stable sources common to both ICRF2 and ICRF1-Ext2. Future maintenance of ICRF2 will be made using a set of 295 new "defining" sources selected on the basis of positional stability and the lack of extensive intrinsic source structure. The stability of these 295 defining sources, and their more uniform sky distribution eliminates the two largest weaknesses of ICRF1.
