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A passive magnetic shield was designed and constructed for magnetometer tests for the future neutron electric dipole moment experiment at TRIUMF. The axial shielding factor of the magnetic shield was measured using a magnetometer based on…

Very Long Baseline Interferometry is capable of measuring the gravitational delay caused by the Sun and planet gravitational fields. The post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$ is now estimated with accuracy of $\sigma_{\gamma}=2\cdot 10^{-4}$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-04 Anastassia Girdiuk , Oleg Titov

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

Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) at frequencies above 230 GHz with Earth-diameter baselines gives spatial resolution finer than the ${\sim}50 \mu$as "shadow" of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sagittarius A* (Sgr…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Michael D. Johnson , Katherine L. Bouman , Andrew A. Chael

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

Finding a suitable very long baseline (VLBI) interferometer geometry is a key task in planning observations, especially imaging sessions. The main characteristic of the quality of VLBI imaging data is the (u, v)-coverage. In the case when…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 I. I. Bulygin , M. A. Shchurov , A. G. Rudnitskiy

We present simulated images of Supernova 1993J at 8.4 GHz using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) techniques. A spherically symmetric source model is convolved with realistic uv-plane distributions, together with standard imaging…

High sensitivity differential atom interferometers are promising for precision measurements in science frontiers in space, including gravity field mapping for Earth science studies and gravitational wave detection. We propose a new…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sheng-wey Chiow , Jason Williams , Nan Yu

Metglas 2705M is a low-cost commercially-available, high-permeability Cobalt-based magnetic alloy, provided as a 5.08-cm wide and 20.3-$\mu$m thick ribbon foil. We present an optimized construction technique for single-shell, large-scale…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-07-14 S. Malkowski , R. Adhikari , B. Hona , C. Mattie , D. Woods , H. Yan , B. Plaster

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) provides the resolution needed to make precision measurements of a pulsar's parallax and proper motion. In making these measurements, the astronomer is faced with difficult calibration problems and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Brisken

We have carried out full imaging simulation studies to explore the impact of frequency standards in millimeter and sub-millimeter Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), focusing on the coherence time and sensitivity. In particular, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Rioja , R. Dodson , Y. Asaki , J. Hartnett , S. Tingay

We present the technical design and characteristics of the magnetic shield developed for 20" PMTs of the low-background OSIRIS facility. A ribbon of amorphous alloy with the extreme magnetic permeability was used in its design providing the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-26 O. Smirnov , D. Korablev , A. Sotnikov , A. Stahl , J. Steinmann , V. Khudyakov , I. Avetissov , M. Zykova

Image reconstruction in very-long baseline interferometry operates under severely sparse aperture coverage with calibration challenges from both the participating instruments and propagation medium, which introduce the risk of biases and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Samuel Lai , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , O. Ivy Wong , Foivos Diakogiannis

The discovery of magnetic fields close to the M87 black hole using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration utilized the novel concept of "closure traces", that are immune to element-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-01 Joseph Samuel , Rajaram Nityananda , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

We study the possibility of counteracting the line-broadening of atomic magnetic resonances due to inhomogeneities of the static magnetic field by means of spatially dependent magnetic dressing, driven by an alternating field that…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Valerio Biancalana , Yordanka Dancheva , Antonio Vigilante

Short time-scale flux density variations of flat spectrum radio sources are often explained by the scattering of radio waves in the turbulent, ionized Interstellar Matter of the Milky Way. One of the most convincing observational arguments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-26 K. E. Gabanyi , N. Marchili , T. P. Krichbaum , L. Fuhrmann , P. Muller , J. A. Zensus , X. Liu , H. G. Song

We have studied Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) polarimetric observations of 8 sources including quasars and BL Lacs at 12, 15, 22, 24 and 43 GHz and high frequency rotation measure ($RM$) maps are presented. We find typical values for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 J. C. Algaba

The longitudinal interlayer magnetoresistance $R_{zz}(B_{z})$ is calculated in strongly anisotropic layered metals, when the interlayer band width $4t_{z}$ is less than the Landau level separation $\hbar \omega_{c}$. The impurity scattering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-29 P. D. Grigoriev

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) astrometry is used to determine the three-dimensional position and proper motion of astronomical objects. A typical VLBI astrometric campaign generally includes around ten observations, making it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Ashish Kumar , Adam T. Deller , Pankaj Jain , Javier Moldón

The very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique offers angular resolutions superior to any other instruments at other wavelengths, enabling unique science applications of high-resolution imaging of radio sources and high-precision…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-06 T. An , B. W. Sohn , H. Imai