Gaia Space Mission and Quasars

Quasars are often considered to be point-like objects. This is largely true and allows for an excellent alignment of the optical positional reference frame of the ongoing ESA mission Gaia with the International Celestial Reference Frame. But presence of optical jets in quasars can cause shifts of th...

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Main Author: Tomaž Zwitter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fspas.2017.00041/full