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Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) combines the signals of telescopes distributed across thousands of kilometres to provide some of the highest angular resolution images of astrophysical phenomena. Due to computational expense,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Jack F. Radcliffe , J. P. McKean , C. Herbé-George , L. Coetzer , T. Matsepane

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

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique for imaging celestial radio emissions by simultaneously observing a source from telescopes distributed across Earth. The challenges in reconstructing images from fine angular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 Katherine L. Bouman , Michael D. Johnson , Daniel Zoran , Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman , William T. Freeman

Many important techniques for investigating the properties of extragalactic radio sources, such as spectral-index and rotation-measure mapping, involve the comparison of images at two or more frequencies. In the case of radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Croke , D. C. Gabuzda

Current optical interferometers are affected by unknown turbulent phases on each telescope. In the field of radio-interferometry, the self-calibration technique is a powerful tool to process interferometric data with missing phase…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Serge Meimon , Laurent M. Mugnier , Guy Le Besnerais

Very Long Baseline Interferometric (VLBI) observations of quasar jets enable one to measure many theoretically expected effects. Estimating the significance of observational findings is complicated by the correlated noise in the image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-22 I. N. Pashchenko

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

The East Asia VLBI Network (EAVN) has recently enabled dual-polarization observations at $22$ and $43\,\mathrm{GHz}$. We present the first systematic verification of its polarimetric performance using EAVN observations of M87, 3C 279, 3C…

Currently, HOPS and AIPS are the primary choices for the time-consuming process of (millimeter) Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data calibration. However, for a full end-to-end pipeline, they either lack the ability to perform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 M. Janssen , C. Goddi , H. Falcke , D. van Rossum , I. van Bemmel , M. Kettenis , D. Small , I. Martí-Vidal

We present the design and implementation of an automated data calibration and reduction pipeline for very-long-baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations taken at millimeter wavelengths. These short radio-wavelengths provide the best…

Extending geodetic and astrometric Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations from traditional centimeter wavebands to millimeter wavebands offers numerous scientific potentials and benefits. However, it was considered quite…

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) enables high-angular-resolution observations in astronomy and geodesy by synthesizing a virtual telescope with baselines spanning hundreds to thousands of kilometres. Achieving high instrumental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Minji Hyun , Changmin Ahn , Junyong Choi , Jihoon Baek , Woosong Jeong , Do-Heung Je , Do-Young Byun , Jan Wagner , Myoung-Sun Heo , Taehyun Jung , Jungwon Kim

Context: Polarimetry is a very powerful tool to uncover various properties of astronomical objects that remain otherwise hidden in standard imaging or spectroscopic observations. However, the reliable measurement of the low polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 S. González-Gaitán , A. M. Mourão , F. Patat , J. P. Anderson , A. Cikota , K. Wiersema , A. B. Higgins , K. Silva

Optical Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) offers the potential for unprecedented angular resolution in both astronomical imaging and precision measurements. Classical approaches, however, face significant limitations due to photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zixin Huang , Oleg Titov , Mikolaj K. Schmidt , Benjamin Pope , Gavin K. Brennen , Daniel Oi , Pieter Kok

Calibration is a key step in the signal processing pipeline of any radio astronomical instrument. The required sky, ionospheric and instrumental models for this step can suffer from various kinds of incompleteness. In this paper we analyze…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-08 A. Mouri Sardarabadi , L. V. E. Koopmans

We propose a probabilistic framework for performing simultaneous estimation of source structure and fringe-fitting parameters in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. As a first step, we demonstrate this technique through…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Iniyan Natarajan , Roger Deane , Ilse van Bemmel , Huib Jan van Langevelde , Des Small , Mark Kettenis , Zsolt Paragi , Oleg Smirnov , Arpad Szomoru

The quality of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio observations predominantly relies on precise and ultra-stable time and frequency (T&F) standards, usually hydrogen masers (HM), maintained locally at each VLBI station. Here, we…

Context. The QUBIC collaboration is building a bolometric interferometer dedicated to the detection of B-mode polarization fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background. Aims. We introduce a self-calibration procedure related to those…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , R. Charlassier , J. -Ch. Hamilton , J. Kaplan , G. Zahariade

In this paper we describe a new approach for mm-VLBI calibration that provides bona-fide astrometric alignment of the mm-wavelength images from a single source, for the measurement of frequency dependent effects, such as `core-shifts' near…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Richard Dodson , María Rioja , Sol Molina , José-Luis Gómez

New functionality to process Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data has been implemented in the CASA package. This includes two new tasks to handle fringe fitting and VLBI-specific amplitude calibration steps. Existing tasks have…