J4  The VLBA at 25: Recent Accomplishments and Future Directions

Saturday, January 6  08:20-11:40  Room 265

Session Chairs:  Greg Taylor, Walter Brisken

08:20  J4-1  CONCEPTS FOR A NEXT-GENERATION VLBA

Jonathan D. Romney*

Long Baseline Observatory, Socorro, NM


08:40  J4-2  THE NEXT GENERATION VERY LARGE ARRAY LONG BASELINE OPTION

Robert J. Selina, Steven Durand*

National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM


09:00  J4-3  VLBA SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Greg B. Taylor*

Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM


09:20  J4-4  VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY (VLBI) IN THE AGE OF FERMI AND GAIA

Frank K. Schinzel*1, Leonid Petrov2

1National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, New Mexico
2Astrogeo Center, Falls Church, VA


09:40  J4-5  Polarization Evolution of Parsec-scale Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei

Matthew L. Lister*

Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN


10:20  J4-6  MASER OBSERVATIONS WITH VLBI

Ylva Pihlstrom*

Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


10:40  J4-7  Gravitational Lenses as High-resolution Telescopes

Anna Barnacka*

Harvard, Cambridge, MA


11:00  J4-8  ASTROMETRY WITH VLBI

Robert T. Zavala*1, Gregory B. Taylor2

1US Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, Flagstaff, AZ
2Department of Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM


11:20  J4-9  TOWARDS THE ICRF3: COMPARING USNO 2016A VLBI GLOBAL SOLUTION TO GAIA AND ICRF2

Megan C. Johnson*, Julien Frouard, Alan L. Fey, Bryan N. Dorland, Valeri Makarov

Astrometry Department, United States Naval Observatory, Washington, DC