Future plans

Since this project is in an initial stage of the identifying calibrators for GMRT, we plan to do the following in the future:

• Since the observed list of sources was selected form the VLA calibrator manual having certain selection criteria, we can further extend these criteria to get more number of sources to observe for identifying them as GMRT calibrators.

• One of the criteria for selection of the sources was that they were good calibrators at 1420 MHz. We can select the sources which are calibrators at 325 MHz for VLA and observe these sources for GMRT at 235 MHz and 150 MHz to find their suitability as calibrators in these frequencies.

• We could also get more number of sources from the catalogs of other observatories of the world to identify them as GMRT calibrators.

• In the observation made for this project, we found that there are a few sources which are not detectable at 235 MHz possibly due to bad data problem or source problem. In future observations we would like to repeat the observations of these sources for consistency check.