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A Brief History of Space VLBI

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2023-12-27 v1

Abstract

Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry is a radio astronomy technique distinguished by a record-high angular resolution reaching single-digit microseconds of arc. The paper provides a brief account of the history of developments of this technique over the period 1960s-2020s.

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@article{arxiv.2306.17647,
  title  = {A Brief History of Space VLBI},
  author = {Leonid I. Gurvits},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.17647},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE "History of Electrotechnology Conference", Florence, Italy, 2023. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1810.01230