Radio Fundamental Catalog
The Radio Fundamental Catalog (RFC) provides
- precise positions
with milli-arcseconds accuracies
- estimates of correlated flux
densities at baselines 1000–8000 km, and
- maps
for thousands of compact radio sources produced by analysis of
all available very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations
under absolute astrometry and geodesy programs. This catalogue forms the
backbone of astrometry with the highest accuracies for various applications,
such as differential astrometry, a pool of phase calibrators, a pool of
sources for geodetic VLBI, association with active galaxy nuclea (AGN)
objects observed in other wavelengths, ties with optical and infrared
astrometric catalogues, morphology study of AGNs, statistical analysis of
radio-loud AGN population, and many others.
The Radio Fundamental Catalog is currently under active development.
The current version of the catalogue rfc_2024a is available.
The contents of this web page and following links contain unpublished
material. The material is provided as a courtesy for the preview.
Using this material in publications, copying, and posting on Internet is
is allowed only a written prior permission.
rfc_2024a catalogue of compact radio sources. This catalogue
is currently the most complete. It has
21,907 objects. The catalogue includes all
sources observed with VLBI under absolute astrometry and geodesy programs
from 1980.04.11 through 2024.03.11. Also
116,118
images in FITS format
of 17980
radio sources are
available from the database of brightness distributions
and images of compact radio sources.
Change log
The catalogue is updated on a quarterly basis because 1) new data are available;
2) old data are reprocessed with advanced software; 3) errors are found
and corrected.
Log of changes of the Radio Fundamental Catalogue.
Contact information
- To contact the maintainer of the Radio Fundamental Catalogue,
send a message to
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