High declination search at 8 GHz for compact radio sources
With the Haystack-NRAO interferometer (baseline length of 20 x 10/sup 6/ lambda at lambda=3.8 cm) we observed 37 sources whose declinations were above 50/sup 0/. Seven of these sources have compact cores with diameters smaller than 5 milliarcsec and with correlated flux densities greater than about 0.5 Jy; the remaining sources have no cores with flux densities above about 0.3 Jy, the sensitivity limit of the interferometer. Two of the sources with detected compact cores, 4C 67.05 and 3C 418, were also observed with longer baseline interferometers; the diameter of the core of 4C 67.05 was estimated to be smaller than 1 milliarcsec and that of 3C 418 to be smaller than 0.4 milliarcsec. All diameter estimates were based on an assumed circular Gaussian distribution of radio brightness and refer to the contour with brightness density e/sup -1/2/ that of the center. Positions for the detected sources were also obtained from the interferometric data, the uncertainty in these coordinate estimates ranging from 0.04 to 0.6 arcsec. The compact core detected in 3C 390.3 was found to lie near the center of this extended (approximately 4 arcmin in diameter) double radio source, and to be coincident to within 1 arcsec with an N galaxy previously identified with 3C 390.3.
- Research Organization:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- OSTI ID:
- 6932022
- Journal Information:
- Astron. J.; (United States), Vol. 83:6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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