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Paper: VLBA Observations of Radio Reference Frame Sources. II. Astrometric Suitability Based on Observed Structure
Volume: 144, Radio Emission from Galactic and Extragalactic Compact Sources, IAU Colloquium 164
Page: 387
Authors: Fey, A. L.; Charlot, P.
Abstract: We use source models derived from VLBA observations of 169 extragalactic sources to quantify the expected effects of intrinsic source structure on astrometric bandwidth synthesis VLBI observations. We define a source ``structure index'' based on the median structure corrections and suggest that this index can be used as an estimate of the astrometric quality of the sources. A correlation between the compactness of the sources and their formal position uncertainties was found indicating that the more extended sources have larger formal position uncertainties.
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