VLBI Detection of Motion of IM Pegasi Radio Emission on Hour Time Scales Coincident with Changes in Flux Density

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VLBI continuum observations at 3.6 cm of the RS Canum Venaticorum binary star IM Pegasi (HR 8703) on 1997 January 16--17 and 18--19, made in support of the NASA-Stanford Relativity Gyroscope Experiment (Gravity Probe B), revealed ~ 1 mas motions of its radio centroid over time periods as short as ~ 1 h. These motions, which we deduced from phase-delay measurements using a Kalman-filter estimator, coincided temporally with changes in the star's flux density measured with the VLA. Phase-referenced maps of the stellar radio emission show motions consistent with those found with the Kalman-filter estimator. We present our estimates of source motion as a function of time during our observations, and discuss the corresponding evolution of the structure seen in our phase-referenced maps. We also discuss what we may learn from additional VLBI observations of the star, which we continue to make at the rate of ~ 4 per year.

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