Astrometric results of 1978-1985 Deep Space Network radio interferometry - The JPL 1987-1 extragalactic source catalog

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Jun 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988aj.....95.1647s&link_type=abstract

Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 95, June 1988, p. 1647-1658.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

43

Astrometry, Astronomical Catalogs, Deep Space Network, Extragalactic Radio Sources, Radio Interferometers, Very Long Base Interferometry, Error Analysis, Spatial Distribution

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An astrometric radio reference frame has been determined from intercontinental dual-frequency radio interferometric measurements. These measurements were carried out on a regular basis during 1978-1985 between NASA's Deep Space Network stations in California, Spain, and Australia. Analysis of 6800 pairs of delay and delay-rate observations made during 51 sessions produced estimates of 1300 parameters. The most significant of these are geophysical quantities and positions of extragalactic sources. The source catalog resulting from this analysis includes 106 sources fairly uniformly distributed over the celestial sphere, north of -45 deg declination. Almost all of the resulting source positions have formal uncertainties between 0.5 and 3 milliarcseconds (mas), with rms values of 2 mas in both angular coordinates. Internal consistency checks, as well as comparisons with independently determined source catalogs of comparable quality, indicate that relative source coordinates determined by VLBI contain systematic errors at the level of 1 to 2 mas.

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