Showing papers by "Richard Dodson published in 2000"
National Radio Astronomy Observatory1, Australia Telescope National Facility2, Massachusetts Institute of Technology3, National Research Council4, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe5, University of Tasmania6, Jet Propulsion Laboratory7, University of Calgary8, Lebedev Physical Institute9, Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory10, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory11, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń12, Arecibo Observatory13, York University14
TL;DR: The VSOP Survey as mentioned in this paper was a Japanese-led project to image radio sources with sub-milliarcsec resolution by correlating the signal from the orbiting 8-m telescope, HALCA, with a global array of telescopes.
Abstract: The VSOP mission is a Japanese-led project to image radio sources with sub-milliarcsec resolution by correlating the signal from the orbiting 8-m telescope, HALCA, with a global array of telescopes. Twenty-five percent of the scientific time of this mission is devoted to a survey of 402 bright, small-diameter extra-galactic radio sources at 5 GHz. The major goals of the VSOP Survey are statistical in nature: to determine the brightness temperature and approximate structure; to provide a source list for use with future space VLBI missions; and to compare radio properties with other data throughout the EM spectrum. This paper describes: the compilation of a complete list of radio sources associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN); the selection of the subsample of sources to be observed with VSOP; the extensive ground resources used for the Survey; the status of the observations as of 2000 July; the data-analysis methods; and several examples of results from the VSOP Survey. More detailed results from the full sample will be given in future papers.
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TL;DR: The Space VLBI mission, VSOP, involved the participation of 15 countries with up to 40 radio telescopes spread across the Earth observing in close coordination with the 8 m radio telescope on board the Japanese spacecraft HALCA as mentioned in this paper.