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Optical Astrometry of Extragalactic Radio Sources With the Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

W.R. Dick  and
I.I. Kumkova
W.R. Dick
Affiliation:
Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 17a DDR-1561 Potsdam Germany, Democratic Republic
I.I. Kumkova
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied Astronomy 8 Zhdanovskaya ul. 197042 Leningrad USSR

Abstract

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Optical positions of objects from the IAU Commission 24 Working Group list of benchmark radio sources have been derived which will contribute to the link of the radio and optical reference frames. Results for 11 objects with an r.m.s. position error of 0.″2 are presented and discussed.

Type
Part 4: Realization and comparison of reference frames
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 141: Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky , 1990 , pp. 453 - 454
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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