Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-05-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of 17th Working Meeting on European VLBI for Geodesy and Astrometry (April 2005)
Scientific paper
VLBI is unique, among the space geodetic techniques, in its contribution to defining and maintaining the International Celestial Reference Frame, providing precise measurements of coordinates of extragalactic radiosources. The quest for increasing accuracy of VLBI geodetic products has lead to a deeper revision of all aspects that might introduce errors in the analysis. The departure of the observed sources from perfect, stable, compact and achromatic celestial targets falls within this category. This paper is concerned with the impact of unaccounted frequency-dependent position shifts of source cores in the analysis of dual-band S/X VLBI geodesy observations, and proposes a new method to measure them. The multi-frequency phase transfer technique developed and demonstrated by Middelberg et al. (2005) increases the high frequency coherence times of VLBI observations, using the observations at a lower frequency. Our proposed SOURCE/FREQUENCY PHASE REFERENCING method endows it with astrometric applications by adding a strategy to estimate the ionospheric contributions. Here we report on the first successful application to measure the core shift of the quasar 1038+528 A at S and X-bands, and validate the results by comparison with those from standard phase referencing techniques. In this particular case, and in general in the cm-wavelength regime, both methods are equivalent. Moreover the proposed method opens a new horizon with targets and fields suitable for high precision astrometric studies with VLBI, especially at high frequencies where severe limitations imposed by the rapid fluctuations in the troposphere prevent the use of standard phase referencing techniques.
Colomer Francisco
Dodson Richard
Porcas Richard W.
Rioja Maria J.
Suda Hiroshi
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