The LBA Calibrator Survey of southern compact extragalactic radio sources - LCS1
Leonid Petrov, Chris Phillips, Alessandra Bertarini, Tara Murphy,, Elaine M. Sadler

TL;DR
This paper presents a catalog of 410 compact extragalactic radio sources in the southern sky, with precise positions and flux densities, aiding VLBI, geodesy, and space navigation, and extends the sample to the southern hemisphere.
Contribution
It provides a new catalog of southern compact radio sources with milliarcsecond accuracy, expanding the existing sample and supporting various astronomical and navigational applications.
Findings
97% detection rate in VLBI observations
Median position uncertainty of 2.6 mas
Increased the number of detectable sources by a factor of 3.5
Abstract
We present a catalogue of positions and correlated flux densities of 410 flat-spectrum, compact extragalactic radio sources, previously detected in the AT20G survey. The catalogue spans the declination range -90deg, -40deg and was constructed from four 24 hour VLBI observing sessions with the Australian Long Baseline Array made at 8.3 GHz. The detection rate in these experiments is 97%. The median uncertainty of source positions is 2.6 mas, the median correlated flux density at baseline projections lengths longer than 1000 km is 0.14 Jy. The goal of this work is 1) to provide a pool of sources with positions known at the milliarcsecond level of accuracy that are needed for phase referencing observations, for geodetic VLBI, and for space navigation; 2) to extend the complete flux-limited sample of compact extragalactic sources to the southern hemisphere; and 3) to investigate…
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