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Radio Interferometry is an essential method for astronomical observations. Self-calibration techniques have increased the quality of the radio astronomical observations (and hence the science) by orders of magnitude. Recently, there is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-03 Sarod Yatawatta , Saleem Zaroubi , Ger de Bruyn , Leon Koopmans , Jan Noordam

Context: Optical interferometry is a powerful tool for observing the intensity structure and angular diameter of stars. When combined with spectroscopy and/or spectrophotometry, interferometry provides a powerful constraint for model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hilding R. Neilson , John B. Lester

Over the next decade, observations conducted with ALMA and the SKA will reveal the process of mass assembly and accretion onto young stars and will be revolutionary for studies of star formation. Here we summarise the capabilities of ALMA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-15 G. A. Fuller , J. Forbrich , J. M. Rathborne , S. Longmore , S. Molinari

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international radio telescope under construction in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ALMA is situated on a dry site at 5000 m elevation, allowing excellent atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alwyn Wootten , A. Richard Thompson

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array offers an unprecedented view of our Sun at sub-/millimeter wavelengths. The high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution facilitates the measurement of gas temperatures and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Sven Wedemeyer , Asbjorn Parmer

In this proceeding, we summarize the key science goals and reference design for a next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) that is envisaged to operate in the 2030s. The ngVLA is an interferometric array with more than 10 times the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Eric J. Murphy

Determining the initial stellar multiplicity is a challenging problem since protostars are faint and deeply embedded at early times; once formed, multiple protostellar systems may significantly dynamically evolve before they are optically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Stella S. R. Offner , John Capodilupo , Scott Schnee , Alyssa A. Goodman

Telescope arrays are receiving increasing attention due to their promise of higher resource utilization, greater sky survey area, and higher frequency of full space-time monitoring than single telescopes. Compared with the ordinary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-07 Yajie Zhang , Ce Yu , Chao Sun , Zhaohui Shang , Yi Hu , Huiyu Zhi , Jinmao Yang , Shanjiang Tang

In recent years, intensity interferometry has seen renewed interest and successful application at Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope arrays. These measurements are usually performed during bright moon periods while the instruments'…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Christopher Ingenhütt , Pedro Batista , Gisela Anton , Alison Mitchell , Naomi Vogel , Adrian Zink , Andreas Zmija , Stefan Funk

Modern radio interferometers deliver large volumes of data containing high-sensitivity sky maps over wide fields-of-view. These large area observations can contain various and superposed structures such as point sources, extended objects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Richard Fuchs , Jakob Knollmüller , Jakob Roth , Vincent Eberle , Philipp Frank , Torsten A. Enßlin , Lukas Heinrich

The Mingantu Spectral Radioheliograph (MUSER), a new generation of solar dedicated radio imaging-spectroscopic telescope, has realized high-time, high-angular, and high-frequency resolution imaging of the sun over an ultra-broadband…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-17 Zhichao Zhou , Yihua Yan , Linjie Chen , Wei Wang , Suli Ma

Spectroastrometry measures source astrometry as a function of wavelength/velocity. Reverberations of spectroastrometric signals naturally arise in broad-line regions (BLRs) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) as a result of the continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-31 Yan-Rong Li , Jian-Min Wang

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a new powerful tool for observing the Sun at high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution. These capabilities can address a broad range of fundamental scientific questions in…

The existing methods for measuring the orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) spectrum suffer from issues such as poor efficiency, strict interferometric stability requirements, and too much loss. Furthermore, most techniques inevitably discard…

The lensing power spectra for gravitational potential, astrometric shift, and convergence perturbations are powerful probes to investigate dark matter structures on small scales. We report the first lower and upper bounds of these lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Takeo Minezaki , Satoki Matsushita , Koichiro Nakanishi

Intensity interferometry permits very long optical baselines and the observation of sub-milliarcsecond structures. Using planned kilometric arrays of air Cherenkov telescopes at short wavelengths, intensity interferometry may increase the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Dainis Dravins , Hannes Jensen , Stephan LeBohec , Paul D. Nuñez

Aims: Optical interferometry from space for the purpose of detecting and characterising exoplanets is seeing a revival, specifically from missions such as the proposed Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). A default assumption since…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Jonah T. Hansen , Michael J. Ireland , the LIFE Collaboration

Monitoring turbulence parameters is crucial in high-angular resolution astronomy for various purposes, such as optimising adaptive optics systems or fringe trackers. The former are present at most modern observatories and will remain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Nuno Morujão , Carlos Correia , Paulo Andrade , Julien Woillez , Paulo Garcia

A novel interferometric method for absolute beam energy measurement is under development at MAMI. At the moment, the method is tested and optimized at an energy of 195 MeV. Despite the very small statistical uncertainty of the method,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-28 P. Klag , P. Achenbach , M. Biroth , T. Gogami , P. Herrmann , M. Kaneta , Y. Konishi , W. Lauth , S. Nagao , S. N. Nakamura , J. Pochodzalla , J. Roser , Y. Toyama

We present the phase characteristics study of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) long (up to 3 km) baseline, which is the longest baseline tested so far using ALMA. The data consist of long time-scale (10 - 20 minutes)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Satoki Matsushita , Yoshiharu Asaki , Ryohei Kawabe , Ed Fomalont , Denis Barkats , Stuartt Corder