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VLBI SOURCE POSITION CATALOGUE Format version of 2010.09.11
Catalogue was created by Leonid Petrov ( lpetrov@localhost )
at 2012.04.17-22:08:12
with using program rfc_outcat version of 2012.04.17
This catalogue contains source positions and estimates of flux density from
reanalysis of VLBI experiments under absolute astrometry and geodesy
programs at the VLBA, LBA, and EVN in 1994-2012, as well as other VLBI
experiments under geodesy and absolute astrometry since 1980.04.11 through
2012.04.02, in total 5381 experiments.
In total, 9.5 million values of group delays were used in the solution.
Home page: http://astrogeo.org/vlbi/solutions/rfc_2012b
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If you use positions and/or estimates of correlated flux densities
from this catalogue in your work, for example, for scheduling phase
referencing observations, you are encouraged to include in your paper
references to original publications:
1) Beasley, A.J., Gordon, D., Peck, A.B., Petrov, L., MacMillan, D.S.,
Fomalont, E.B., & Ma, C., The VLBA Calibrator Survey - VCS1, 2002,
Astrophys. J. Sup., 141, 13
2) Fomalont, E., Petrov, L., McMillan, D.S., Gordon, D., Ma, C.,
The Second VLBA Calibrator Survery: VCS2, 2003, Astron. J., 126, 2562
3) Petrov, L., Kovalev, Yu.Y., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D.,
The Third VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS3, Astron. J., 2005, 129, 1163
4) Petrov, L., Kovalev, Yu.Y., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D.,
The Fourth VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS4, Astron. J., 2006, 131, 1872
5) Kovalev, Yu.Y., Petrov, L., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D.,
The Fifth VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS5, Astron. J., 2007, 133, 1236
6) Petrov, L., Kovalev, Yu.Y., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D.,
The Sixth VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS6, Astron. J., 2008, 136, 580
7) Petrov, L., Phillips, C., Bertarini, A., Murphy, T., Sadler, E.M,
The LBA Calibrator Survey of southern compact extragalactic
radio sources --- LCS1, Mon. Not. of Roy. Astron. Soc.,
2011, 414(3), 2528-2539
8) Petrov, L., Kovalev, Y.Y., Fomalont, E.B., Gordon, D. "The VLBA Galactic
Plane Survey --- VGaPS", Astron J, 2011, 142, 35
9) Kovalev, Y.Y., Petrov, L., Gordon, D. Fomalont, E.B., "The Northern Polar
Cap VLBI survey", to be submitted to AJ, 2011
10) Immer, K., Brunthaler, A., Reid, M. J., Bartkiewicz, A., Choi, Y. K.,
Menten, K. M., Moscadelli, L., Sanna, A., Wu, Y. W., Xu, Y.,
Zhang, B., Zheng, X. W., The VLBA Calibrator Search for the BeSSeL
Survey, ApJS, vol., 194, 25
11) Petrov, L., Taylor, G., Precise absolute astrometry from the VLBA
imaging and polarimetry survey at 5 GHz, Astron. J., 2011, 142, 89
12) Petrov, L., "The EVN Galactic Plane Survey --- EGaPS",
MNRAS, 2012, 416, 1097-1105
Field 1:1 A1 Category: C (calibrator), N (non-calibrator), U (unreliable coordinates)
Field 4:11 A8 IVS name (B1950)
Field 13:22 A10 IAU name (J2000.0)
Field 25:26 I2 Right ascension: hours
Field 28:29 I2 Right ascension: minutes
Field 31:39 F9.6 Right ascension: seconds
Field 41:43 I3 Declination: degrees
Field 45:46 I3 Declination: minutes
Field 48:57 F8.5 Declination: seconds
Field 58:63 F6.2 Inflated error in right ascension in mas
Field 65:70 F6.2 Inflated error in declination in mas
Field 73:78 F6.3 Correlation between right ascension and declination
Field 80:85 I6 Number of observations used
Field 88:88 A1 Blank or < or - for S-band total flux density integrated over entire map
Field 89:93 F5.3 S-band total flux density integrated over entire map, Jy
Field 95:95 A1 Blank or < or - for S-band unresolved flux density at VLBA baselines, Jy
Field 96:100 F5.3 S-band unresolved flux density at long VLBA baselines, Jy
Field 103:103 A1 Blank or < or - for C-band total flux density integrated over entire map
Field 104:108 F5.3 C-band total flux density integrated over entire map, Jy
Field 110:110 A1 Blank or < or - for C-band unresolved flux density at VLBA baselines
Field 111:115 F5.3 C-band unresolved flux density at long VLBA baselines, Jy
Field 118:118 A1 Blank or < or - for X-band total flux density integrated over entire map
Field 119:123 F5.3 X-band total flux density integrated over entire map, Jy
Field 125:125 A1 Blank or < or - for X-band unresolved flux density at VLBA baselines
Field 126:130 F5.3 X-band unresolved flux density at long VLBA baselines, Jy
Field 133:133 A1 Blank or < or - for U-band total flux density integrated over entire map
Field 134:138 F5.3 U-band total flux density integrated over entire map, Jy
Field 140:140 A1 Blank or < or - for U-band unresolved flux density at VLBA baselines
Field 141:145 F5.3 U-band unresolved flux density at long VLBA baselines, Jy
Field 148:148 A1 Blank or < or - for K-band total flux density integrated over entire map
Field 149:153 F5.3 K-band total flux density integrated over entire map, Jy
Field 155:155 A1 Blank or < or - for K-band unresolved flux density at VLBA baselines
Field 156:160 F5.3 K-band unresolved flux density at long VLBA baselines, Jy
Field 163:165 A3 Used Band: S, C, X, U, K or X/S
Field 168:175 A8 Catalogue name
Missing value: -1.0
minus in columns 88, 95, 103, 110, 118, 125, 133, 140, 148, 155 means that no data in the following column present
< in columns 88, 95, 103, 110, 118, 125, 133, 140, 148, 155 means that the upper limit of the flux density is presented in the following column.
IVS name J2000 name Right ascension Declination D_alp D_Del Corr #Obs S-band flux C-band Flux X-band Flux U-band flux K-band Flux Type Cat
Total Unres Total Unres Total Unres Total Unres Total Unres
hr mn seconds deg mn seconds mas mas Jy Jy Jy Jy Jy Jy Jy Jy Jy Jy
C 2357+080 J0000+0816 00 00 07.031136 +08 16 45.05175 0.47 0.85 0.756 41 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00 0.020 <0.014 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00 X rfc_2012b
VCS6 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/136/2/580
Title: The Sixth VLBA Calibrator Survey VCS6
Authors: Petrov L., Kovalev Y.Y., Fomalont E.B., Gordon D.
Table: The VCS6 catalog
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: aj271422t4_mrt.txt
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1 A1 --- Cat Category (1)
4- 11 A8 --- IVS The IVS name (B1950)
13- 22 A10 --- IAU The IAU name (J2000.0)
25- 26 I2 h RAh Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)
28- 29 I2 min RAm Minute of Right Ascension (J2000)
31- 39 F9.6 s RAs Second of Right Ascension (J2000)
41- 41 A1 --- DE- Sign of the Declination (J2000)
42- 43 I2 deg DEd Degree of Declination (J2000)
45- 46 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of Declination (J2000)
48- 55 F8.5 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of Declination (J2000)
58- 63 F6.2 mas errRA Inflated error in Right Ascension
65- 70 F6.2 mas errDE Inflated error in Declination
73- 78 F6.3 --- Corr Correlation between Right Ascension & Declination
80- 85 I6 --- Num Number of observations used
88- 88 A1 --- f_XTot Flag on XTot (2)
89- 92 F4.2 Jy XTot X-band total flux density integrated over
entire map
94- 94 A1 --- f_XUnres Flag on XUnres (2)
95- 98 F4.2 Jy XUnres X-band unresolved flux density at longest VLBA
baselines
101-101 A1 --- f_STot Flag on STot (2)
102-105 F4.2 Jy STot S-band total flux density integrated over
entire map
107-107 A1 --- f_SUnres Flag on SUnres (2)
108-111 F4.2 Jy SUnres S-band unresolved flux density at longest VLBA
baselines
114-116 A3 --- Band Used Band for position estimation (3)
119-119 A1 --- CName Input list name (4)
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Note (1):
C = calibrator, i.e. the semi-major axis of the inflated error ellipse is
less than 5 mas and more than 8 good pairs of X/S group delay
measurements are available;
N = non-calibrator with reliable coordinates, i.e. does not fit the
condition to be considered as calibrator, but has more than 8 good
group delay measurements at X or S band;
U = non-calibrator with unreliable coordinates, i.e. does not fit the
condition to be considered as calibrator, has less than 8 detections at
any band, and therefore, there is a risk that group delay ambiguities
were resolved incorrectly.
Note (2):
- = no data in the following column present.
< = upper limit of the flux density is presented in the following column.
Note (3):
X = central frequency 8.6 GHz;
S = central frequency 2.3 GHz;
X/S = Both bands with central frequency 8.6 and 2.3 GHz.
Note (4):
a = 27 known sources which previosly were observed with a priori errors > 30";
r = 68 sources observed in VCS1-2 with 64 Mb/s rate, which yielded 1-9 obs;
v = 139 leftovers from the VCS5 list;
i = 30 IDV sources with flux density average > 130 mJy.
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N 0000-199 J0003-1941 00 03 15.949411 -19 41 50.40190 2.59 6.88 -0.814 11 0.12 <0.06 0.20 0.14 X/S v
C 0003+123 J0006+1235 00 06 23.056110 +12 35 53.09745 0.92 1.08 0.280 24 0.16 <0.06 0.13 <0.06 X/S v
C 0005+683 J0008+6837 00 08 33.472899 +68 37 22.04848 1.81 0.58 -0.190 90 0.43 <0.06 0.28 -1.00 X r
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