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Current cosmological controversies can be solved if a sufficient level of precision is achieved by observations. Future surveys with the next generation of telescopes will offer significantly improved depth and angular resolution with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-23 C. Spingola

The internet has been used for data transfer in radio astronomy ever since its inception; however it is only recently that network bandwidth capability means that the internet becomes competitive with traditional forms of data storage. Very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 R. E. Spencer , R. Hughes-Jones , M. Strong , S. Casey , A. Rushton , P. Burgess , S. Kershaw , C. Greenwood

We investigate the capabilities of various stages of the SKA to perform world-leading weak gravitational lensing surveys. We outline a way forward to develop the tools needed for pursuing weak lensing in the radio band. We identify the key…

In this paper we introduce a software package, the Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network SIMulator (VNSIM), which provides an integrated platform assisting radio astronomers to design the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-11 Zhen Zhao , Tao An , Baoqiang Lao

Space very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) has unique applications in high-resolution imaging of fine structure of astronomical objects and high-precision astrometry due to the key long space-Earth or space-space baselines beyond the…

The recent development of a relatively inexpensive 16-Gbps data-recording system based on commercial off-the-shelf technology and open-source software, along with parallel development in broadband Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)…

We describe a new method which achieves high precision Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry in observations at millimeter wavelengths. It combines fast frequency-switching observations, to correct for the dominant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) offers unrivalled resolution in studies of celestial radio sources. The subjects of interest of the IAU Symposium No. 356, the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) of all types, constitute the major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Leonid I. Gurvits , Robert Beswick , Melvin Hoare , Ann Njeri , Jay Blanchard , Carla Sharpe , Adrian Tiplady , Aletha de Witt

We construct a pipeline for simulating weak lensing cosmology surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), taking as inputs telescope sensitivity curves; correlated source flux, size and redshift distributions; a simple ionospheric model;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Anna Bonaldi , Ian Harrison , Stefano Camera , Michael L. Brown

Long baseline radio interferometers can provide some interesting opportunities for future SETI searches. Known advantages (compared to single dishes or beam-formed arrays), include the large reduction in false-positives due to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-18 M. A. Garrett

We have been developing a novel interferometer formed directly between a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope and a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) antenna/receiver. This interferometer is enabled by the High…

The Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is studying a space VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometer) program. The ultimate objective of the program is to image the immediate vicinity of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 Xiaoyu Hong , Zhiqiang Shen , Tao An , Qinghui Liu , the Chinese Space VLBI Array team

For Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), the fringe spacing is extremely narrow compared to the field of view imposed by the primary beam of each element. This means that an extremely large number of resolution units can potentially be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 John S. Morgan , F. Mantovani , A. T. Deller , W. Brisken , W. Alef , E. Middelberg , M. Nanni , S. J. Tingay

The first Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) conducted with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is presented. By consideration of the basic principles of interferometry, we show that VLBI is efficient at discriminating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Rampadarath , J. S. Morgan , S. J. Tingay , C. M. Trott

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique for imaging celestial radio emissions by simultaneously observing a source from telescopes distributed across Earth. The challenges in reconstructing images from fine angular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 Katherine L. Bouman , Michael D. Johnson , Daniel Zoran , Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman , William T. Freeman

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

Almost two decades after the establishment of the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE), the European VLBI Network is a thriving scientific infrastructure with a significant user community and a healthy proposal pressure. It offers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Huib Jan van Langevelde

Astrometry at centimeter wavelengths using Very Long Baseline Interferometry is approaching accuracies of ~1 uas for the angle between a target and a calibrator source separated by <1 degree on the sky. The BeSSeL Survey and the Japanese…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-13 Mark J. Reid

Extension of radio interferometric baselines into space is inevitable if a diffraction-limited angular resolution defined by the Earth diameter at a given observing wavelength limits a pursuit of specific scientific goals. This was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Leonid I. Gurvits

With the establishment of the AUT University 12m radio telescope at Warkworth, New Zealand has now become a part of the international Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) community. A major product of VLBI observations are images in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-26 Stuart Weston , Tim Natusch , Sergei Gulyaev