Microarcsecond Scintillation-Induced Variability (MASIV) Survey of the Northern Sky

Abstract

We present the results of a large-scale 5-GHz Very Large Array (VLA) survey of the northern sky searching for sources that exhibit intraday variability (IDV). The observations were made over four epochs, each of 3 days in January, May and September 2002 and January 2003. The objective is to obtain a large sample of IDV sources in order to derive reliable statistics of the microarcsecond properties of the source population and the scattering properties of the interstellar medium.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA486341

Entities

People

  • B. J. Rickett
  • C. Senkbeil
  • D. L. Jauncey
  • H. E. Bignall
  • J. E. Lovell
  • J. Macquart
  • L. Kedziora-chudczer
  • M. Dutka
  • R. Ojha
  • Stanislav Shabala
  • T. Pursimo

Organizations

  • United States Naval Observatory

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Massachusetts
  • Monitoring
  • Observation
  • Observatories
  • Scattering
  • Scintillation
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Surveys

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics

Technology Areas

  • Space