Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 11-Mar-2024)

Result of query: info cati VSOP$

Details on Acronym:   VSOP
  
VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory Program)
Write:<<VSOP JHHMM+DDMM>>
N: 402+140
Object:(Rad)  (SIMBAD class: Radio = Radio Source)
Note:VSOP survey sample was defined to include all cataloged extra-galactic radio-sources in the sky.
Observations are made with the satellite HALCA.
370 objects were first found in 1998PABei..16..117S.
Ref:=2000PASJ...52..997H
byHIRABAYASHI H. , FOMALONT E., HORIUCHI S., LOVELL E.J., MOELLENBROCK G.A., INOUE M., BURKE B.F., DEWDNEY P.E., GURVITS L.I., KOBAYASHI H., JAUNCEY D.L., MURATA Y., McCULLOCH P., PRESTON R.A., AVRUCH I.M., EDWARDS P.G., DOUGHERTY S.M., SCOTT W.K., FREY S., PARAGI Z., KOVALEV Y.A., POPOV M., ROMNEY J.D., SCHILIZZI R.T., SHEN Z.-Q., NICOLSON G., QUICK J., COSTA M., DODSON R., REYNOLDS J.E., TZIOUMIS A.K., TINGAY S.J., HONG X.-Y., LIANG S.-G., HUANG X.-Y., WEI W.-R., TRIGILIO C., TUCCARI G., NAKAJIMA J., KAWAI E., UMEMOTO T., MIYAJI T., FUJISAWA K., KAWAGUCHI N., KUS A., GHIGO F., SALTER C., GHOSH T., KANEVSKY B., SLYSH V., GUNN A., BURGESS P., CARLSON B., DEL RIZZO D., TAYLOR R., CANNON W., KAMENO S., SHIBATA K.M., BENSON J., FLATTERS C., HALE A., LEWIS C., LANGSTON G., MINTER A., MILLER K., SMITH J., WIETFELDT R., ALTUNIN V., MEIER D.L., MURPHY D.W., RESCH G., LISTER M.L., PINER B.G., JENKINS R., BORDER J., GIMENO J.
 Publ. Astron. Soc. Jap., 52, 997-1014 (2000)
  The VSOP 5 GHz AGN survey. I. Compilation and observations.
oCA Table 1: <VSOP JHHMM+DDMM> N=402.
Ref:=2008ApJS..175..314D
byDODSON R. , FOMALONT E.B., WIIK K., HORIUCHI S., HIRABAYASHI H., EDWARDS P.G., MURATA Y., ASAKI Y., MOELLENBROCK G.A., SCOTT W.K., TAYLOR A.R., GURVITS L.I., PARAGI Z., FREY S., SHEN Z.-Q., LOVELL J.E.J., TINGAY S.J., RIOJA M.J., FODOR S., LISTER M.L., MOSONI L., COLDWELL G., PINER B.G., YANG J.
 Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 175, 314-355 (2008)
  The VSOP 5 GHz active galactic nucleus survey. V. Imaging results for the remaining 140 sources.
oTable 1: <VSOP JHHMM+DDMM> N=140 added.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as J/PASJ/52/997
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as J/ApJS/175/314
Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)