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The balloon-borne very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment is a technical feasibility study for performing radio interferometry in the stratosphere. The flight model has been developed. A balloon-borne VLBI station will be…

The very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique offers angular resolutions superior to any other instruments at other wavelengths, enabling unique science applications of high-resolution imaging of radio sources and high-precision…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-06 T. An , B. W. Sohn , H. Imai

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) offers unrivalled resolution in studies of celestial radio sources. The subjects of interest of the IAU Symposium No. 356, the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) of all types, constitute the major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Leonid I. Gurvits , Robert Beswick , Melvin Hoare , Ann Njeri , Jay Blanchard , Carla Sharpe , Adrian Tiplady , Aletha de Witt

The recent development of a relatively inexpensive 16-Gbps data-recording system based on commercial off-the-shelf technology and open-source software, along with parallel development in broadband Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)…

The high angular resolution and sensitivity of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) offer a unique tool to identify and study active galactic nuclei and star-formation activity over cosmic time. However, despite recent technical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-05 Célestin Herbé-George , J. P. Mckean , Raffaella Morganti , Jack F. Radcliffe

Wide-field surveys are a commonly-used method for studying thousands of objects simultaneously, to investigate, e.g., the joint evolution of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei. VLBI observations can yield valuable input to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Enno Middelberg , Adam Deller , John Morgan , Helge Rottmann , Walter Alef , Steven Tingay , Ray Norris , Uwe Bach , Walter Brisken , Emil Lenc

There are at least four well known Very Long Baseline Interferometer (VLBI) networks that provide open access to astronomers around the world. These include the EVN, VLBA, CMVA and APT/LBA. In this paper I have chosen to focus on a sub-set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Garrett

Various sign-posts of recent star-formation activity, such as water and methanol maser emission or magnetically active low-mass young stars, can be detected with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio arrays. The extremely accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Laurent Loinard , Mark J. Reid

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 European VLBI Network (EVN) is in the process of establishing an e-VLBI array in which the radio telescopes and the EVN correlator at JIVE are connected in real-time, via high-speed national fibre optic networks and the pan-European…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Garrett

Radio observations with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) provide the highest resolution in astronomy. Combining earth-bound with space-based telescopes and advancing the observations to mm-wavelengths increases the resolution even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Zensus , T. P. Krichbaum , S. Britzen

The next generation of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is stepping into the era of microarcsecond ($\mu$as) astronomy, and pushing astronomy, especially astrometry, to new heights. VLBI with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-24 Yingjie Li , Ye Xu , Jingjing Li , Shuaibo Bian , Zehao Lin , Chaojie Hao , Dejian Liu

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,…

I present an overview of important results obtained using high-resolution very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of X-ray binary systems. These results derive from both astrometric observations and resolved imaging of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James Miller-Jones

A review is given on the current status and selected results from large VLBI surveys of compact extragalactic radio sources made between 13 cm and 3 mm wavelengths and covering the entire sky. More than 4200 objects are observed and imaged…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Y. Y. Kovalev

The internet has been used for data transfer in radio astronomy ever since its inception; however it is only recently that network bandwidth capability means that the internet becomes competitive with traditional forms of data storage. Very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 R. E. Spencer , R. Hughes-Jones , M. Strong , S. Casey , A. Rushton , P. Burgess , S. Kershaw , C. Greenwood

Adding VLBI capability to the SKA arrays will greatly broaden the science of the SKA, and is feasible within the current specifications. SKA-VLBI can be initially implemented by providing phased-array outputs for SKA1-MID and SKA1-SUR and…

The new technique, multi-frequency imaging (MFI) is developed. In VLBI, Multi-Frequency Imaging (MFI) consists of multi-frequency synthesis (MFS) and multi-frequency analysis (MFA) of the VLBI data obtained from observations on various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Likhachev

Extension of radio interferometric baselines into space is inevitable if a diffraction-limited angular resolution defined by the Earth diameter at a given observing wavelength limits a pursuit of specific scientific goals. This was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Leonid I. Gurvits

The alignment between the radio-based International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) and the optical Gaia Celestial Reference Frame (Gaia-CRF) is critical for multi-waveband astronomy, yet systematic offsets at the optical bright end (G<13)…