2005f_astro catalogue contains positions, estimates of correlated flux density and images of compact extragalactic radio sources from reanalysis of VLBA calibrator survey observing campaigns in 1994-2005 and from 4059 experiments for geophysics and absolute astrometry since 1979.08.03 through 2005.12.01.   Refer to the home page of the solution for more details.

Credit

• Beasley, A.J., Gordon, D., Peck, A.B., Petrov, L., MacMillan, D.S., Fomalont, E.B., and Ma,C. 2002, Astrophys. J. Sup., The VLBA Calibrator Survey - VCS1, 141, 13     Full text: 2002ApJS..141...13B;


• Fomalont, E., Petrov, L., McMillan, D.S., Gordon, D., Ma, C., The Second VLBA Calibrator Survery: VCS2, 2003, Astron. J., 126, 2562 Full text:     2003AJ....126.2562F;


• Petrov, L., Kovalev, Yu.Y., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D. The Third VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS3, Astron. J., 2005, 129, 1163     Full text: 2005AJ....129.1163P;


• Petrov, L., Kovalev, Yu.Y., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D. The Fourth VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS4, Astron. J., 2006, 131, 1872     Full text: astro-ph/0508506;


• Kovalev, Yu.Y., Petrov, L., Fomalont, E., and Gordon, D. The Fifth VLBA Calibrator Survey -- VCS5, Astron. J., 2006 (in preparation).

Specific positions in this table can be referred as "L. Petrov, solution 2005f_astro (unpublished, available on the Web at http://vlbi.gsfc.nasa.gov/solutions/2005f_astro)". These positions differ from positions in the original publications and reflect recent improvements in analysis technique.

Images were produced by

• Yuri Y. Kovalev
• Alexandr Pushkarev