Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-11-17
In: Measuring the Future, Proc. Fifth IVS General Meeting, A. Finkelstein, D. Behrend (Eds.), 2008, 256-260
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
6 pp., presented at the 5th IVS General Meeting, St. Petersburg, Russia, 3-6 March 2007
Scientific paper
A new list of physical characteristics of 3914 astrometric radio sources, including all 717 ICRF-Ext.2 sources, observed during IVS and NRAO VCS sessions have been compiled. The list includes source type, redshift and visual magnitude (if available). In case of doubt detailed comment is provided. The list of sources with their positions was taken from the Goddard VLBI astrometric catalog with addition of two ICRF-Ext.2 sources. At this stage the source characteristics were mainly taken from the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). 667 sources from our list are included into the IERS list. Comparison has shown a significant difference in characteristics for about half of these 667 common sources. We compiled a list of frequently observed sources without known physical characteristics for urgent optical identification and spectrophotometric observations with large optical telescopes. This presented list of physical characteristics can be used as a supplement material for the ICRF-2, as well as a database for kinematic studies of the Universe and other related works, including scheduling of dedicated IVS programs.
Malkin Zinovy
Titov Oleg
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