Towards an accurate alignment of the VLBI frame and the future Gaia frame - VLBI observations of optically-bright weak extragalactic radio sources: Status and future prospects

G. Bourda (1, 2, 3, 4) , A. Collioud (1, 2, 3, 4) , P. Charlot (1, 2, 3, 4) , R. W. Porcas , S. Garrington (5)

1 OASU - Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers
2 LAB - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac]
3 UB - Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1
4 L3AB - Laboratoire d'astrodynamique, d'astrophysique et d'aéronomie de bordeaux
5 Jodrell Bank Observatory

Domaines: Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]; Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]

G. Bourda, A. Collioud, P. Charlot, R. W. Porcas, S. Garrington. Towards an accurate alignment of the VLBI frame and the future Gaia frame - VLBI observations of optically-bright weak extragalactic radio sources: Status and future prospects. Proceedings of the 20th EVGA Meeting, held 29-31 March, 2011 at Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany. Edited by Walter Alef, Simone Bernhart, and Axel Nothnagel, p.158, 2011, Bonn, Germany. pp.158. ⟨hal-00607710⟩