The international celestial reference frame as realized by very long baseline interferometry

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 516-546

  Ma, C ^a   Arias, E F ^b   Eubanks, T M ^c   Fey, A L ^c   Gontier, A M ^d   Jacobs, C S ^e   Sovers, O J ^e,f   Archinal, B A ^c   Charlot, P ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^c US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f Remote Sensing Analysis Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Catalogs; Quasars: general; Radio continuum; Reference systems; Techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001642666     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/300408     Document Type: Article

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