Radio optical reference frame. 6: Additional source positions in the northern hemisphere

Details Radio optical reference frame. 6: Additional source positions in the northern hemisphere Radio optical reference frame. 6: Additional source positions in the northern hemisphere

Jan 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aj....107..385f&link_type=abstract

The Astronomical Journal, vol. 107, no. 1, p. 385-391

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

9

Astronomical Coordinates, Extragalactic Radio Sources, Position (Location), Reference Stars, Astrometry, Northern Sky, Radio Astronomy, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Very Long Base Interferometry

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Radio and optical positions for northern hemisphere extragalactic sources are reported. Milliarcsecond (mas) accurate radio positions of 106 sources north of -2 deg declination are derived from Mark III Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations taken during ten experiments from 1990 January through 1990 October. The results presented supplement an ongoing project to define and maintain an all-sky radio/optical reference frame of 400 or more extragalactic sources with mas accurate radio and optical positions. Radio positions for 34 new sources are presented along with improved radio positions for 72 sources already in the reference frame catalog. An additional nine sources have been determined to be unsuitable reference frame objects. Radio observations of nine calibration sources tie the new positions to the existing catalogue. The radio positions of the new sources have formal mean errors of approximately 0.7 mas in right ascension and approximately 1.0 mas in declination. Sources for which we report improved radio positions now have formal mean errors of approximately 0.5 mas in both coordinates, an improvement in some cases by as much as 75%. Positions in the FK5 system have also been obtained for the optical counterparts of an additional five northern hemisphere radio sources using prime focus plates from the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 4 m telescope and a Ritchey-Chretien focus plate from the Calar Alto 2.2 m telescope. The optical positions have internal accuracies of about 0.03 sec and differ from the radio positions by about 0.07 sec on the average.

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