The Second Realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame by Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Presented on behalf of the IERS / IVS Working Group
Alan L. Fey, David Gordon, and Christopher S. Jacobs (eds.)
(IERS Technical Note No. 35)
Bibliographic details:
The Second Realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame by Very Long Baseline Interferometry, Presented on behalf of the IERS / IVS Working Group, Alan Fey, David Gordon, and Christopher S. Jacobs (eds.). (IERS Technical Note ; 35) Frankfurt am Main: Verlag des Bundesamts für Kartographie und Geodäsie, 2009. 204 p., ISBN 3-89888-918-6 (print version)
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Table of Contents
3 VLBI Analysis Software (pdf/92 KB)
4 Selection and Treatment of Special Handling Sources (pdf/1025 KB)
5 Characterization of Source Structure (pdf/133 KB)
6 Data and Modeling Comparisons (pdf/404 KB)
7 The ICRF2 Solution (pdf/96 KB)
8 Combination and Comparison of Contributed Catalogs (pdf/180 KB)
9 Determination of Realistic Errors (pdf/236 KB)
10 External validation (pdf/1572 KB)
11 Selection of ICRF2 Defining Sources (pdf/260 KB)
12 Alignment of ICRF2 onto ICRS and Axis Stability (pdf/171 KB)
13 The ICRF2 Catalogue (pdf/98 KB)
14 Statistics of the ICRF2 Catalogue (pdf/771 KB)
15 Conclusions and Future Work (pdf/69 KB)
A IERS/IVS Working Group (pdf/73 KB)
B IAU Working Group - Division I (pdf/71 KB)
Tabel 18: Coordinates of 295 ICRF2 Defining Sources at S/X-band (pdf/101 KB)
Tabel 19: Coordinates of 922 ICRF2 Non-Defining Sources at S/X-band (pdf/172 KB)
Tabel 20: Coordinates of 2197 ICRF2 VCS-only Sources at S/X-band (pdf/297 KB)
Tabel 21: Physical characteristics of ICRF2 defining sources (pdf/77 KB)
