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)

IERS Technical Note 35: The Second Realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame
by Very Long Baseline Interferometry (PDF, 5MB, Not barrier-free file.)

Table of Contents

IERS Technical Note 35: Front matter (PDF, 67KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: Abstract (PDF, 59KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: Table of Contents (PDF, 64KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: List of Figures (PDF, 98KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: List of Tables (PDF, 78KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 1. Introduction (PDF, 96KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 2. The Data (PDF, 90KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 3. VLBI Analysis Software (PDF, 90KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 4. Selection and Treatment of Special Handling Sources (PDF, 1MB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 5. Characterization of Source Structure (PDF, 132KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 6 Data and Modeling Comparisons (PDF, 402KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 7 The ICRF2 Solution (PDF, 94KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 8 Combination and Comparison of Contributed Catalogs (PDF, 178KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 9 Determination of Realistic Errors (PDF, 234KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 10 External validation (PDF, 2MB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 11 Selection of ICRF2 Defining Sources (PDF, 258KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 12 Alignment of ICRF2 onto ICRS and Axis Stability (PDF, 170KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 13 The ICRF2 Catalogue (PDF, 96KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 14 Statistics of the ICRF2 Catalogue (PDF, 769KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: 15 Conclusions and Future Work (PDF, 66KB, Not barrier-free file.)


IERS Technical Note 35: A IERS/IVS Working Group (PDF, 71KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: B IAU Working Group - Division I (PDF, 69KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: References (PDF, 87KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: Tabel 18: Coordinates of 295 ICRF2 Defining Sources at S/X-band (PDF, 99KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: Tabel 19: Coordinates of 922 ICRF2 Non-Defining Sources at S/X-band (PDF, 171KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: Tabel 20: Coordinates of 2197 ICRF2 VCS-only Sources at S/X-band (PDF, 297KB, Not barrier-free file.)

IERS Technical Note 35: Tabel 21: Physical characteristics of ICRF2 defining sources (PDF, 75KB, Not barrier-free file.)