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Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry is a well established technique for achieving $\pm10~\mu$as parallax accuracies at frequencies well above 10~GHz. At lower frequencies, uncompensated interferometer delays associated with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Lucas J. Hyland , Mark J. Reid , Simon P. Ellingsen , Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson , Gabor Orosz , Colin R. Masson , Jamie M. McCallum

Astrometry at centimeter wavelengths using Very Long Baseline Interferometry is approaching accuracies of ~1 uas for the angle between a target and a calibrator source separated by <1 degree on the sky. The BeSSeL Survey and the Japanese…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-13 Mark J. Reid

With the advent of infrared long-baseline interferometers with more than two telescopes, both the size and the completeness of interferometric data sets have significantly increased, allowing images based on models with no a priori…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Stéphanie Renard , Eric Thiébaut , Fabien Malbet

Relativistic bending in the vicinity of a massive body is characterized only by the post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$ within the standard parameterized post-Newtonian formalism, which is unity in General Relativity. Aiming at estimating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 S. B. Lambert , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

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 Interferometry (VLBI) observations can provide the position of compact radio sources with an accuracy of order 50 micro-arcseconds. This is sufficient to measure the trigonometric parallax and proper motions of any object…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-07 L. Loinard , A. J. Mioduszewski , R. M. Torres , S. Dzib , L. F. Rodriguez , A. F. Boden

Astronomical imaging can be broadly classified into two types. The first type is amplitude interferometry, which includes conventional optical telescopes and Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The second type is intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Manuel Bojer , Zixin Huang , Sebastian Karl , Stefan Richter , Pieter Kok , J. von Zanthier

While conventional imaging in VLBI provides information only about the relative position between different features of a given source, phase-referenced observations can provide precise positional information with respect to an external…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Ros

The calibration and analysis of polarization observations in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) requires the use of specific algorithms that suffer from several limitations, closely related to assumptions in the data properties that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Ivan Marti-Vidal , Alejandro Mus , Michael Janssen , Pablo de Vicente , Javier Gonzalez

We present a new approach for image reconstruction and weak lensing measurements with interferometers. Based on the shapelet formalism presented in Refregier (2001), object images are decomposed into orthonormal Hermite basis functions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tzu-Ching Chang , Alexandre Refregier

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique allows us to determine positions of thousands of radio sources using the absolute astrometry approach. I have investigated the impact of a selection of observing frequencies in a range from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Leonid Petrov

By linking widely separated radio dishes, the technique of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) can greatly enhance angular resolution in radio astronomy. However, at any given moment, a VLBI array only sparsely samples the information…

The spatial-frequency coverage of a radio interferometer is increased by combining samples acquired at different times and observing frequencies. However, astrophysical sources often contain complicated spatial structure that varies within…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 U. Rau

A space-based very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) programme, named as the Cosmic Microscope, is proposed to involve dual VLBI telescopes in the space working together with giant ground-based telescopes (e.g., Square Kilometre Array,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-19 Tao An , Sumit Jaiswal , Prashanth Mohan , Zhen Zhao , Baoqiang Lao

Context. The current algorithms used for the calibration and analysis of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) networks that only use linear polarizers (as is the case of the VLBI Global Observing System, VGOS) do not properly account…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 V. Pérez-Díez , I. Martí-Vidal , E. Albentosa-Ruiz , J. González-García , F. Jaron , T. Savolainen , M. H. Xu , R. Bachiller

The direct observation of cold and temperate planets within 1 to 10 AU would be extremely valuable for uncovering their atmospheric compositions but remains a formidable challenge with current astronomical methods. Ground-based optical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 S. Lacour , Ó. Carrión-González , M. Nowak

With the establishment of the AUT University 12m radio telescope at Warkworth, New Zealand has now become a part of the international Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) community. A major product of VLBI observations are images in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-26 Stuart Weston , Tim Natusch , Sergei Gulyaev

This white paper describes the science case for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and provides suggestions towards upgrade paths for the European VLBI Network (EVN). The EVN is a distributed long-baseline radio interferometric array,…

In this paper, a new geometry index of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observing networks, the volume of network $V$, is examined as an indicator of the errors in the Earth orientation parameters (EOP) obtained from VLBI…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-08-14 Zinovy Malkin

Many of the compact extragalactic radio sources that are used as fiducial points to define the celestial reference frame are known to have proper motions detectable with long-term geodetic/astrometric Very Long Baseline Interferometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 A. Moór , S. Frey , S. B. Lambert , O. Titov , J. Bakos