view Abstract Citations (9) References (31) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS A high declination search at 8 GHz for compact radio sources. Wittels, J. J. ; Shapiro, I. I. ; Robertson, D. S. ; Counselman, C. C. ; Hinteregger, H. F. ; Knight, C. A. ; Rogers, A. E. E. ; Whitney, A. R. ; Clark, T. A. ; Hutton, L. K. ; Ma, C. ; Niell, A. E. ; Resch, G. M. ; Rönnäng, B. O. ; Rydbeck, O. E. H. Abstract With the Haystack-NRAO interferometer (baseline length of 20 million wavelengths at 3.8 cm) 37 sources were observed whose declinations were above 50 deg. Seven of these sources have compact cores with diameters smaller than 5 milliarcsec and with correlated flux densities greater than about 0.5 Jy; the remaining sources have no cores with flux densities above about 0.3 Jy, the sensitivity limit of the interferometer. Two of the sources with detected compact cores, 4C 67.05 and 3C 418, were also observed with longer-baseline interferometers; the diameter of the core of 4C 67.05 was estimated to be smaller than 1 milliarcsec and that of 3C 418 to be smaller than 0.4 milliarcsec. All diameter estimates were based on an assumed circular Gaussian distribution of radio brightness and refer to the contour with brightness density e to the -1/2 power times that of the center. Positions for the detected sources were also obtained from the interferometric data, the uncertainty in these coordinate estimates ranging from 0.04 to 0.6 arcsec. The compact core detected in 3C 390.3 was found to lie near the center of this extended (approximately 4 arcmin in diameter) double radio source and to be coincident to within 1 arcsec with an N galaxy previously identified with 3C 390.3. Publication: The Astronomical Journal Pub Date: June 1978 DOI: 10.1086/112235 Bibcode: 1978AJ.....83..560W Keywords: Microwave Emission; Radio Sources (Astronomy); Very Long Base Interferometry; Astronomical Maps; Radiant Flux Density; Radio Astronomy; Tables (Data); Astronomy; Diameters:Radio Sources; Radio Sources:Compact; Radio Sources: Surveys full text sources ADS | data products SIMBAD (38) NED (5)