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Open our eyes to wider fields in VLBI surveys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2017

Kristóf Rozgonyi
Affiliation:
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary e-mail: rstofi@gmail.com
Sándor Frey
Affiliation:
FÖMI Satellite Geodetic Observatory, PO Box 585, H-1592 Budapest, Hungary Konkoly Observatory, MTA CSFK, PO Box 67, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary e-mail: sandor.frey@gmail.com
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Abstract

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The observation and imaging of hundreds or thousands of radio sources with the technique of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a computationally intensive task. However, these surveys allow us to conduct statistical investigations of large source samples, and also to discover new phenomena or types of objects. The field of view of these high-resolution VLBI imaging observations is typically a few arcseconds at cm wavelengths. For practical reasons, often a much smaller fraction of the field, the central region is imaged only. With an automated process we imaged the ~1.5-arcsec radius fields around more than 1000 radio sources, and found a variety of extended radio structures. Some of them are yet unknown in the literature.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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