Hostname: page-component-7bb8b95d7b-5mhkq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-09-18T13:19:08.721Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Optical Counterparts of Extragalactic Radio Sources in the Southern Sky: Positions Obtained from Schmidt Plates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

H. G. Walter*
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Fed. Rep. of Germany

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The usefulness of Schmidt plates for measuring astrometric positions of extragalactic radio sources with an average uncertainty of less than 0.3 arcseconds is emphasized in the discussion of the results on 50 optical counterparts and by the comparison with corresponding positions obtained through radio interferometry.

Type
III. Photographic Astrometry
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

References

de Vegt, C. and Gehlich, U.K.: 1981, Astron. Astrophys. 101, 191 Google Scholar
Fanselow, J.L., Sovers, C.J., Thomas, J.B., Bletzacker, F.R., Kearns, T.J., Purcell, G.H. Jr., Rogstad, D.H., Skjerve, L.J. and Young, L.E.: 1981, in Reference Coordinate Systems for Earth Dynamics, eds. Gaposchkin, E.M. and Kolaczek, B., D. Reidel, Dordrecht, p.351 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Høg, E. and von der Heide, J.: 1976, Perth 70. A Catalogue of Positions of 24 900 Stars, Hamburger Sternwarte, 334 ppGoogle Scholar
Schwan, H.: 1983, private communication Google Scholar
Walter, H.G. and West, R.M.: 1980, Astron. Astrophys. 86, 1 Google Scholar
Walter, H.G. and West, R.M.: 1982, Astron. Astrophys. 111, 357 Google Scholar