Bibliographic details:

Chopo Ma and Martine Feissel (eds.): Definition and realization of the International Celestial Reference System by VLBI astrometry of extragalactic objects. (IERS Technical Note ; 23) Paris: Central Bureau of IERS - Observatoire de Paris, 1997. vi, 282 p.

IERS Technical Note 23: Definition and Realization of the International Celestial Reference System by VLBI Astrometry of Extragalactic Objects (PDF, 33MB, Not barrier-free file.)

Table of Contents

IERS Technical Note 23: Front matter (PDF, 24KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 23: Table of Contents (PDF, 86KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 23: NETWORK ADDRESSES FOR VIEWABLE AND MACHINE-READABLE FILES RELATED TO THIS TECHNICAL NOTE (PDF, 40KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 23: IERS Technical Notes (PDF, 52KB, Not barrier-free file.)


IERS Technical Note 23: PART I: VLBI GLOBAL ASTROMETRY (PDF, 2MB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 23: THE CONTRIBUTION OF VLBI TO THE REALIZATION OF A CELESTIAL REFERENCE SYSTEM (PDF, 1MB, Not barrier-free file.)
A.-M. Gontier, M. Feissel, C. Ma

IERS Technical Note 23: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES OF VLBI CELESTIAL REFERENCE FRAME WORK (PDF, 483KB, Not barrier-free file.)


IERS Technical Note 23: PART II: THE INTERNATIONAL CELESTIAL REFERENCE FRAME (PDF, 4MB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 23: THE INTERNATIONAL CELESTIAL REFERENCE FRAME REALIZED BY VLBI (PDF, 4MB, Not barrier-free file.)
C. Ma, E.F. Arias, T.M. Eubanks, A.L. Fey, A.-M. Gontier, C.S. Jacobs, O.J. Sovers, B.A. Archinal, P. Charlot


IERS Technical Note 23: PART III: TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON THE ICRF (PDF, 26MB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 23: 1. Introduction (PDF, 451KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 23: 2. Physical characteristics of radio sources (PDF, 859KB, Not barrier-free file.)
B.A. Archinal, E.F. Arias, A.-M. Gontier, C. Mercuri-Moreau

IERS Technical Note 23: 3. Dual-frequency VLBA images and structure corrections for 193 sources (PDF, 19MB, Not barrier-free file.)
A.L. Fey, P. Charlot

IERS Technical Note 23: 4. Stability of ICRF source positions (PDF, 4MB, Not barrier-free file.)
T.M. Eubanks

IERS Technical Note 23: 5. Dictionary of aliases (PDF, 1MB, Not barrier-free file.)
B.A. Archinal, E.F. Arias, A.-M. Gontier, C. Mercuri-Moreau, O.J. Sovers


IERS Technical Note 23: PART IV: IAU RESOLUTIONS AND DESCRIPTION OF ICRS (PDF, 943KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 23: 1. IAU Resolutions (PDF, 490KB, Not barrier-free file.)

2. The extragalactic reference system of the International Earth Rotation Service, ICRS (PDF, 463KB, Not barrier-free file.)
E.F. Arias, P. Charlot, M. Feissel, and J.-F. Lestrade
Astron. Astrophys. (1995) 303, 604-608 (reprint)


IERS Technical Note 23: Back matter (PDF, 15KB, Not barrier-free file.)