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Faraday rotation measurements using the current and next generation of low-frequency radio telescopes will provide a powerful probe of astronomical magnetic fields. However, achieving the full potential of these measurements requires…

The next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) is an astronomical observatory planned to operate at centimeter wavelengths (25 to 0.26 centimeters, corresponding to a frequency range extending from 1.2 GHz to 116 GHz). The observatory will be…

We describe MIFS, a second generation integral-field spectrograph for the VLT, operating in the visible wavelength range. It combines a 1'x1' field of view with the improved spatial resolution provided by multi-conjugate adaptive optics and…

A simple, low-cost millimeter-wave (70 GHz) interferometer with a phase accuracy better than plus or minur 2 degrees, and a response time of 10 ns is described. The simplicity of this interferometer makes it ideal for measurement of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-27 M. Gilmore , W. Gekelman , K. Reiling , W. A. Peebles

We discuss the technique of Wide-field imaging as it applies to Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). In the past VLBI data sets were usually averaged so severely that the field-of-view was typically restricted to regions extending a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Garrett , R. W. Porcas , A. Pedlar , T. W. B. Muxlow , S. T. Garrington

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique allows us to determine positions of thousands of radio sources using the absolute astrometry approach. I have investigated the impact of a selection of observing frequencies in a range from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Leonid Petrov

The calibration and analysis of polarization observations in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) requires the use of specific algorithms that suffer from several limitations, closely related to assumptions in the data properties that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Ivan Marti-Vidal , Alejandro Mus , Michael Janssen , Pablo de Vicente , Javier Gonzalez

We report multiple epoch VLA/JVLA observations of 89 northern hemisphere sources, most with 37\,GHz flux density > 1 Jy, observed at 4.8, 8.5, 33.5, and 43.3 GHz. The high frequency selection leads to a predominantly flat spectrum sample,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 Noah Kurinsky , Anna Sajina , Bruce Partridge , Steve Myers , Xi Chen , Marcos López-Caniego

The fidelity of radio astronomical images is generally assessed by practical experience, i.e. using rules of thumb, although some aspects and cases have been treated rigorously. In this paper we present a mathematical framework capable of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-12 Stefan J. Wijnholds , Alle-Jan van der Veen

Time-harmonic far-field source array imaging in a two-dimensional waveguide is analyzed. A low-frequency situation is considered in which the diameter of the waveguide is slightly larger than the wavelength, so that the waveguide supports a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Josselin Garnier

Large radio telescopes in the 21st century such as the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) or the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) make use of phased aperture arrays of antennas to achieve superb survey speeds. The Square Kilometer Array low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Ha Bui-Van , Christophe Craeye , Eloy de Lera Acedo

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting about 100 soccer field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate in the frequency range from ~10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution at…

High-resolution astronomical imaging at sub-GHz radio frequencies has been available for more than 15 years, with the VLA at 74 and 330 MHz, and the GMRT at 150, 240, 330 and 610 MHz. Recent developments include wide-bandwidth upgrades for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-21 H. T. Intema

Recent work has successfully achieved sub-arcsecond wide-field imaging with high-band observations from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). However, the scalability of this work remains limited due to the need for manual intervention, poor…

To continue the unparalleled success of the Very Large Array (VLA) for radio astronomy, the facility is currently being converted to become the 'Expanded VLA' (EVLA). The EVLA will radically improve the VLA in order to cover the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juergen Ott , Rick Perley , Michael Rupen , the EVLA team

The Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) beamforming technique is widely applied in array systems to mitigate interference. However, applying MVDR to large arrays is computationally challenging; its computational complexity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Sanjaya Herath , Armin Gerami , Kevin Wagner , Ramani Duraiswami , Christopher A. Metzler

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry is a well established technique for achieving $\pm10~\mu$as parallax accuracies at frequencies well above 10~GHz. At lower frequencies, uncompensated interferometer delays associated with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Lucas J. Hyland , Mark J. Reid , Simon P. Ellingsen , Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson , Gabor Orosz , Colin R. Masson , Jamie M. McCallum

This article presents a novel type of very long baseline astronomical interferometer that uses the fluctuations, as a function of time, of the intensity measured by a quadratic detector, which is a common type of astronomical detector. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-24 Ermanno F. Borra

We investigated in detail the morphology at low radio frequencies of the supernova remnant IC443 and accurately established its radio continuum spectral properties. We used the VLA in multiple configurations to produce high resolution radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Castelletti , G. Dubner , T. Clarke , N. E. Kassim

In this paper, we use multi-frequency angular size measurements of 58 intermediate-luminosity quasars reaching the redshifts $z\sim 3$ and demonstrate that they can be used as standard rulers for cosmological inference. Our results indicate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Jingzhao Qi , Yu Pan , Xiaogang Zheng , Tengpeng Xu , Xuan Ji , Zong-Hong Zhu