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, 93KB)
4 Selection and Treatment of Special Handling Sources (PDF, 1MB)
5 Characterization of Source Structure (PDF, 134KB)
6 Data and Modeling Comparisons (PDF, 404KB)
7 The ICRF2 Solution (PDF, 97KB)
8 Combination and Comparison of Contributed Catalogs (PDF, 180KB)
9 Determination of Realistic Errors (PDF, 236KB)
10 External validation (PDF, 2MB)
11 Selection of ICRF2 Defining Sources (PDF, 260KB)
12 Alignment of ICRF2 onto ICRS and Axis Stability (PDF, 172KB)
13 The ICRF2 Catalogue (PDF, 98KB)
14 Statistics of the ICRF2 Catalogue (PDF, 772KB)
15 Conclusions and Future Work (PDF, 69KB)
A IERS/IVS Working Group (PDF, 74KB)
B IAU Working Group - Division I (PDF, 71KB)
Tabel 18: Coordinates of 295 ICRF2 Defining Sources at S/X-band (PDF, 102KB)
Tabel 19: Coordinates of 922 ICRF2 Non-Defining Sources at S/X-band (PDF, 173KB)
Tabel 20: Coordinates of 2197 ICRF2 VCS-only Sources at S/X-band (PDF, 297KB)
Tabel 21: Physical characteristics of ICRF2 defining sources (PDF, 78KB)