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most citedThe third realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame by very long baseline interferometry

308 citations · 564 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.GA2024

PDRs4All VIII: Mid-IR emission line inventory of the Orion Bar

Dries Van De Putte, Raphael Meshaka, Boris Trahin +135

Mid-infrared emission features probe the properties of ionized gas, and hot or warm molecular gas. The Orion Bar is a frequently studied photodissociation region (PDR) containing l…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

The K-band (24 GHz) Celestial Reference Frame determined from Very Long Baseline Interferometry sessions conducted over the past 20 years

Hana Krasna, David Gordon, Aletha de Witt +1

The third realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF3) was adopted in August 2018 and includes positions of extragalactic objects at three frequencies: 8.4 GH…

astro-ph.EP2023

On More than Two Decades of Celestial Reference Frame VLBI Observations in the Deep South: IVS-CRDS (1995-2021)

S. Weston, A. de Witt, Hana Krasna +13

The International VLBI Service for Geodesy & Astrometry (IVS) regularly provides high-quality data to produce Earth Orientation Parameters (EOP), and for the maintenance and realiz…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

Position and Proper Motion of Sagittarius A* in the ICRF3 Frame from VLBI Absolute Astrometry

David Gordon, Aletha de Witt, Christopher S. Jacobs

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a strong, compact radio source believed to be powered by a super-massive black hole at the galactic center. Extinction by dust and gas in the galactic pl…

astro-ph.GA2021

Imaging Sources in the Third Realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame

Lucas R. Hunt, Megan C. Johnson, Phillip J. Cigan +2

The third iteration of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF3) is made up of 4536 quasars observed at S/X bands using Very Long baseline Interferometry (VLBI). These so…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 308 cited

The third realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame by very long baseline interferometry

P. Charlot, C. S. Jacobs, D. Gordon +17

A new realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) is presented based on the work achieved by a working group of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) man…

astro-ph.IM2019

The Next Generation Celestial Reference Frame

Megan Johnson, Frank Schinzel, Jeremy Darling +10

Astrometry, the measurement of positions and motions of the stars, is one of the oldest disciplines in Astronomy, extending back at least as far as Hipparchus' discovery of the pre…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 9 cited

The ICRF-3: Status, plans, and progress on the next generation International Celestial Reference Frame

Z. Malkin, C. S. Jacobs, F. Arias +17

The goal of this presentation is to report the latest progress in creation of the next generation of VLBI-based International Celestial Reference Frame, ICRF3. Two main directions…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 12 cited

VLBI for Gravity Probe B. IV. A New Astrometric Analysis Technique and a Comparison with Results from Other Techniques

D. E. Lebach, N. Bartel, M. F. Bietenholz +7

When VLBI observations are used to determine the position or motion of a radio source relative to reference sources nearby on the sky, the astrometric information is usually obtain…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 112 cited

The VLBA Galactic Plane Survey -- VGaPS

L. Petrov, Y. Y. Kovalev, E. B. Fomalont +1

This paper presents accurate absolute positions from a 24 GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) search for compact extragalactic sources in an area where the density of known calibra…

physics.geo-ph2008★ 108 cited

Precise geodesy with the Very Long Baseline Array

Leonid Petrov, David Gordon, John Gipson +5

We report on a program of geodetic measurements between 1994 and 2007 which used the Very Long Baseline Array and up to 10 globally distributed antennas. One of the goals of this p…