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Experiments were performed with prototype antenna tiles for the Mileura Widefield Array--Low Frequency Demonstrator (MWA-LFD) to better understand the widefield, wideband properties of their design and to characterize the radio frequency…

The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) is a pan-European radio interferometer with baselines up to 2,000 km. This provides sub-arcsecond resolution at frequencies of <200 MHz. Since starting science operations in 2012, the ILT has carried…

The capabilities of the Global mm-VLBI Array are summarized and demonstrated through actual images from our monitoring of extragalactic radio jets. This sensitive 3mm-VLBI interferometer is able to provide images of up to 50 microarcseconds…

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…

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

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. J. A. Rottgering

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is expected to start science operations in 2030 and by that time there could be up to 10$^5$ artificial satellites in Earth's orbit, comprising an increase of an order of magnitude compared to 2024. Most of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Nicolas Cerardi , Emma Tolley , Federico di Vruno

Interferometric gravitational wave antennas are based on Michelson interferometers whose sensitivity to small differential length changes has been enhanced by adding multiple coupled optical resonators. The use of optical cavities is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Sigg , H. Rong , P. Fritschel , M. Zucker , R. Bork , N. Mavalvala , D. Ouimette , G. Gonzalez

Interferometers require accurate determination of the array configuration in order to produce reliable observations. A method is presented for finding the maximum-likelihood estimate of the telescope geometry, and of other instrumental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Klaus Maisinger , M. P. Hobson , Richard D. E. Saunders , Keith J. B. Grainge

This chapter summarizes radio astrometry in relation to current very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) projects and describes its perspectives with the SKA. The scientific goals of the astrometry with the SKA have been discussed in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-08 Hiroshi Imai , Ross A. Burns , Yoshiyuki Yamada , Naoteru Goda , Tahei Yano , Gabor Orosz , Kotaro Niinuma , Kenji Bekki

The past decade has seen the rise of various radio astronomy arrays, particularly for low-frequency observations below 100MHz. These developments have been primarily driven by interesting and fundamental scientific questions, such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-28 Raj Thilak Rajan , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Mark Bentum , Marc Klein-Wolt , Frederik Belien , Michel Arts , Noah Saks , Alle-Jan van der Veen

Less than $200$ radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) are known above redshift $4$. Around $40$ of them have been observed at milliarcsecond (mas) scale resolution with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique. Some of them are…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the largest radio interferometer under construction in the world. Its immense amount of visibility data poses a considerable challenge to the subsequent processing by the science data processor (SDP).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Qing-Wen Deng , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Jing Li , Oleg Smirnov , Shao-Guang Guo

The design of an interferometric array should allow optimal instrumental response regarding all possible source positions, times of integration and scientific goals. It should also take into account constraints such as forbidden regions on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Boone

Mixing between dark photons and visible photons leads to substantial anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background due to resonant conversions of visible photons into dark photons in baryonic matter found in dark matter halos. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Ethan Baker , Hongwan Liu

The effects of diffraction, reflection and mutual coupling on the spectral smoothness of radio telescopes becomes increasingly important at low frequencies, where the observing wavelength may be significant compared with the antenna or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Lister Staveley-Smith

The science case and associated science requirements for a next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) are described, highlighting the five key science goals developed out of a community-driven vision of the highest scientific priorities in…

The Haystack Telescope is an antenna with a diameter of 37~m and an elevation-dependent surface accuracy of $\le{}100~\mu{}\rm{}m$ that is capable of millimeter-wave observations. The radome-enclosed instrument serves as a radar sensor for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Jens Kauffmann , Ganesh Rajagopalan , Kazunori Akiyama , Vincent Fish , Colin Lonsdale , Lynn D. Matthews , Thushara G. S. Pillai

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…

Solar observations at sub-mm, mm and cm wavelengths offer a straightforward diagnostic of physical conditions in the solar atmosphere because they yield measurement of brightness temperature which, for optically thick features, equals…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Costas Alissandrakis , Timothy Bastian , Roman Brajša