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The development of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) phasing system (APS) has allowed ALMA to function as an extraordinarily sensitive station for very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) at frequencies of up to 230…

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In the past two decades, a rebirth of interest in low-frequency radio astronomy for 21 cm tomography of the Epoch of Reionization, has given rise to a new class of radio interferometers with $N \gg 100$ antennas. The availability of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-11 Deepthi Gorthi

We have developed a multi-pixel beamformer technique, which can be used for enhancing the capabilities for studying pulsars using an interferometric array. Using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), we illustrate the application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jayanta Roy , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Yashwant Gupta

In recent years, several experimental studies have come out to validate the theoretical findings of interference alignment (IA), but only a handful of studies have focused on blind interference alignment. Unlike IA and other interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Simon Begashaw , James Chacko , Nikhil Gulati , Danh H. Nguyen , Nagarajan Kandasamy , Kapil R. Dandekar

By utilizing the quadratic dependency of the interferometry phase on time, the Hannover Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometer facility (VLBAI) aims for sub nm/s$^2$ gravity measurement sensitivity. With its 10 m vertical baseline, VLBAI…

This article presents a novel type of very long baseline astronomical interferometer that uses the fluctuations, as a function of time, of the intensity measured by a quadratic detector, which is a common type of astronomical detector. The…

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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

Space Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry (S-VLBI) observations at high frequencies hold the prospect of achieving the highest angular resolutions and astrometric accuracies, resulting from the long baselines between ground and satellite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-12 M. Rioja , R. Dodson , J. Malarecki , Y. Asaki

We present techniques developed to calibrate and correct Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) low frequency (72-300 MHz) radio observations for polarimetry. The extremely wide field-of-view, excellent instantaneous (u, v)-coverage and…

In Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), signals from multiple antennas combine to create a sparsely sampled virtual aperture, its effective diameter determined by the largest antenna separation. The inherent sparsity makes VLBI imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Alejandro Mus , Hendrik Müller , Ivan Martí-Vidal , Andrei Lobanov

To increase the number of sources with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry available for comparison with the Gaia results, we have observed 31 young stars with recently reported radio emission. These stars are all in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Sergio A. Dzib , Laurent Loinard , Ralf Launhardt , Jazmín Ordóñez-Toro

We present a new method for interferometric imaging that is ideal for the large fields of view and compact arrays common in 21 cm cosmology. We first demonstrate the method with simulations for two very different low frequency…

We present a new approach to multi-frequency synthesis in radio astronomy. Using Bayesian inference techniques, the new technique estimates the sky brightness and the spectral index simultaneously. In principle, the bandwidth of a wide-band…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 H. Junklewitz , M. A. Bell , T. Enßlin

The space photometric project "Lyra" is developed now in Russia.The project purpose is determination of the photometric information and coordinates of the natural and artificial space objects, from the brightest ones to 16^m in visual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-26 Alexey V. Mironov , Andrey I. Zakharov , Mikhail E. Prokhorov , Feodor N. Nikolaev , Maxim N. Tuchin

In recent works, sparse models and convex optimization techniques have been applied to radio-interferometric (RI) imaging showing the potential to outperform state-of-the-art imaging algorithms in the field. In this talk, I will review our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-19 Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

The Submillimeter Array (SMA), a collaborative project of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), has begun operation on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A total of eight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul T. P. Ho , James M. Moran , Kwok Yung Lo

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) provides the finest angular resolution of all astronomical observation techniques. However, observations with Earth-based instruments are approaching fundamental limits on angular resolution. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Ben Hudson , Leonid I. Gurvits , Daniel Palumbo , Sara Issaoun , Hannah Rana

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

Radio interferometry is a powerful technique that allows astronomers to create high-resolution images of astronomical objects. The distribution of radio telescopes in an interferometer is a critical factor that determines the resolution and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Elio Quiroga Rodriguez

FarView is a proposed low frequency radio interferometer for deployment on the lunar far side, enabled by the Moon's radio quiet environment. Operating over 1-50 MHz inaccessible from Earth, FarView will open a new observational window and…