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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'…

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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

MIRC-X is a six telescope beam combiner at the CHARA array that works in J and H wavelength bands and provides an angular resolution equivalent to a $B$=331m diameter telescope. The legacy MIRC combiner has delivered outstanding results in…

Interferometric experiments of the reionization era offer the advantages of measuring power in spatial modes with increased sensitivity afforded by multiple independent sky measurements. Here we review early work to measure this signal,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Cathryn M. Trott , Jonathan C. Pober

Next-generation radio interferometers, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will revolutionise our understanding of the universe through their unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. However, standard methods in radio interferometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-23 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Rafael E. Carrillo , Alexandru Onose , Yves Wiaux

The Herschel Satellite and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) are two very large sub-mm and far infrared (FIR) astronomy projects that are expected to come into operation in this decade. This report contains descriptions of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. L. Wilson , D. Elbaz , eds

In order to meet the theoretically achievable imaging performance, calibration of modern radio interferometers is a mandatory challenge, especially at low frequencies. In this perspective, we propose a novel parallel iterative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-09 Martin Brossard , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Marius Pesavento , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal , Stefan J. Wijnholds

The Very Small Array (VSA) is a fourteen-element interferometer designed to study the cosmic microwave background on angular scales of 2.4 to 0.2 degrees (angular multipoles l = 150 to 1800). It operates at frequencies between 26 and 36…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Angela C. Taylor

The Atacama Large Millimeter-Submillimeter Array (ALMA) has opened a new window for studying the Sun via high-resolution high-sensitivity imaging at millimeter wavelengths. In this contribution I review the capabilities of the instrument…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Maria Loukitcheva

We describe the scientific motivation for and conceptual design of the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer, an imaging interferometer designed to operate at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The rationale for the major technical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 David F. Buscher , Michelle Creech-Eakman , Allen Farris , Christopher A. Haniff , John S. Young

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

In this document we layout a new method to achieve "bona fide" high precision Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry (VLBI) astrometric measurements of frequency-dependent positions of celestial sources (even) in the high (mm-wavelength)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-08 Richard Dodson , Maria J. Rioja

Interferometric techniques are at the forefront of modern astronomical instrumentation. A new generation of instruments are either operating or nearing completion, including arrays of small telescopes as well as the ``big guns'' (VLTI and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy R. Bedding

A wide bandwidth, dual polarized, modified four-square antenna is presented as a feed antenna for radio astronomical measurements. A linear array of these antennas is used as a line-feed for cylindrical reflectors for Tianlai, a radio…

The extraordinary astrometric accuracy of radio interferometry creates an important and unique opportunity for the discovery and characterization of exo-planets. Currently, the Very Long Baseline Array can routinely achieve better than 100…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geoffrey C. Bower , Alberto Bolatto , Eric Ford , Paul Kalas , Jim Ulvestad

Systematic surveys of astronomical objects often lead to discoveries, but always provide invaluable information for statistical studies of well-defined samples. They also promote follow-up investigations of individual objects or classes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Frey

The observation and imaging of hundreds or thousands of radio sources with the technique of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a computationally intensive task. However, these surveys allow us to conduct statistical investigations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Kristóf Rozgonyi , Sándor Frey

Many modern radio telescopes employ an observational strategy that involves maximizing the use of their available spaces (cabins), outfitting them with various receivers at different frequencies to detect incoming signals from the sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Emiliano Rasztocky , Matias Rolf Hampel , Rodrigo Reeves , Jacques R. D. Lepine , Gustavo Esteban Romero

Ground-based observation at frequencies below 30 MHz is hindered by the ionosphere of the Earth and radio frequency interference. To map the sky at these low frequencies, we have proposed the Discovering the Sky at the Longest wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Yuan Shi , Yidong Xu , Li Deng , Fengquan Wu , Lin Wu , Qizhi Huang , Shifan Zuo , Jingye Yan , Xuelei Chen

We revisit the "Cluster-Cluster" or multi-view Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry (VLBI) technique from the perspective of its synergy with the multi-beam features inherent in the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)and its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 M. J. Rioja , R. Dodson , R. W. Porcas , D. Ferris , J. Reynolds , T. Sasao , R. T. Schilizzi