Very Long Baseline Interferometry with the SKA
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2014-12-19 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
Adding VLBI capability to the SKA arrays will greatly broaden the science of the SKA, and is feasible within the current specifications. SKA-VLBI can be initially implemented by providing phased-array outputs for SKA1-MID and SKA1-SUR and using these extremely sensitive stations with other radio telescopes, and in SKA2 by realising a distributed configuration providing baselines up to thousands of km, merging it with existing VLBI networks. The motivation for and the possible realization of SKA-VLBI is described in this paper.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.5971,
title = {Very Long Baseline Interferometry with the SKA},
author = {Zsolt Paragi and Leith Godfrey and Cormac Reynolds and Maria Rioja and Adam Deller and Bo Zhang and Leonid Gurvits and Michael Bietenholz and Arpad Szomoru and Hayley Bignall and Paul Boven and Patrick Charlot and Richard Dodson and Sandor Frey and Michael Garrett and Hiroshi Imai and Andrei Lobanov and Mark Reid and Eduardo Ros and Huib van Langevelde and J. Anton Zensus and Xing Wu Zheng and Antxon Alberdi and Ivan Agudo and Tao An and Megan Argo and Rob Beswick and Andy D. Biggs and Andreas Brunthaler and Robert M. Campbell and Giuseppe Cimo and Francisco Colomer and Stephane Corbel and John Conway and David Cseh and Roger Deane and Heino Falcke and Krisztina Gabanyi and Marcin Gawronski and Michael Gaylard and Gabriele Giovannini and Marcello Giroletti and Ciriaco Goddi and Sharmila Goedhart and Jose L. Gomez and Alastair Gunn and Taehyun Jung and Preeti Kharb and Hans-Rainer Klockner and Elmar Kording and Yurii Yu. Kovalev and Magdalena Kunert-Bajraszewska and Michael Lindqvist and Matt Lister and Franco Mantovani and Ivan Marti-Vidal and Mar Mezcua and John McKean and Enno Middelberg and James Miller-Jones and Javier Moldon and Tom Muxlow and Tim O'Brien and Miguel Pérez-Torres and Sergei Pogrebenko and Jonathan Quick and Anthony P. Rushton and Richard Schilizzi and Oleg Smirnov and Bong Won Sohn and Gabriele Surcis and Greg Taylor and Steven Tingay and Valeriu Tudose and Alexander van der Horst and Joeri van Leeuwen and Tiziana Venturi and Rene Vermeulen and Wouter Vlemmings and Aletha de Witt and Olaf Wucknitz and Jun Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5971},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
19 pages SKA-VLBI review paper with 5 figures, to be published in the proceedings of "Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array", PoS(AASKA14)143