A phase-reference study of the quasar pair 1038+528A,B

Details A phase-reference study of the quasar pair 1038+528A,B A phase-reference study of the quasar pair 1038+528A,B

2000-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002097v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 8 figures, accepted to be publised in A&A

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We present results from 3.6 cm observations of the quasar pair 1038+528 A and B, made in 1995 using the VLBA together with the Effelsberg 100m telescope. We describe the use of a phase-referencing technique to measure the astrometric separation between the quasars. We also introduce a new data analysis method -"hybrid double mapping"- which preserves the relative astrometric information in a single VLBI hybrid map for close source pairs. We combine our measurements with those from three previous epochs, the earliest in 1981. Our new observations confirm the evolution within the structure of quasar B, previously proposed to explain the measured change in the relative separation of the pair. Our upper bound for any systematic proper motion between the mass centres of quasars A and B is 10 micro-arcsec/year. This is set by the limited precision in defining the reference points in the quasars at different epochs and by possible instabilities of the source "core" locations. A separate analysis enables us to put more stringent upper limits to any core motions along the two source axes.

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