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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…

Non-classical states of light find applications in enhancing the performance of optical interferometric experiments, with notable example of gravitational wave-detectors. Still, the presence of decoherence hinders significantly the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , M. Jarzyna , J. Kolodynski

The number of publications of aperture-synthesis images based on optical long-baseline interferometry measurements has recently increased due to easier access to visible and infrared interferometers. The interferometry technique has now…

Deep space navigation presents significant challenges due to the unavailability of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals and severe signal attenuation over interplanetary distances. Traditional terrestrial systems, such as NASA…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Moshe Golani , Yoram Rozen , Hector Rotstein

This work aims to explore the possibilities of determining the long-period part of the precession-nutation of the Earth with techniques other than very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). Lunar laser ranging (LLR) is chosen for its…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Yu-Ting Cheng , Jia-Cheng Liu , Zi Zhu

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

Within the last 10 years, long-baseline optical interferometry (LBOI) has benefited significantly from increased sensitivity, spatial resolution, and spectral resolution, e.g., measuring the diameters and asymmetries of single stars,…

The very recent years have seen a promising start in scientific publications making use of images produced by near-infrared long-baseline interferometry. The technique has reached, at last, a technical maturity level that opens new avenues…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Benisty , J-P. Berger , L. Jocou , P. Labeye , F. Malbet , K. Perraut , P. Kern

The application of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been limited to date, despite the technique offering many advantages over traditional single-dish SETI observations. In…

We discuss the present performance and the future perspectives of VLBI in the 3 mm to 0.85 mm observing bands (so called mm-VLBI). The availability of new telescopes and the recent technical development towards larger observing bandwidth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 T. P. Krichbaum , U. Bach , D. A. Graham , W. Alef , A. Roy , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus , M. Bremer , S. Sanchez

We propose a method for optical interferometry in telescope arrays assisted by quantum networks. In our approach, the quantum state of incoming photons along with an arrival time index is stored in a binary qubit code at each receiver.…

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

Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) at frequencies above 230 GHz with Earth-diameter baselines gives spatial resolution finer than the ${\sim}50 \mu$as "shadow" of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sagittarius A* (Sgr…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Michael D. Johnson , Katherine L. Bouman , Andrew A. Chael

Astrometry, the measurement of positions and motions of the stars, is one of the oldest disciplines in Astronomy, extending back at least as far as Hipparchus' discovery of the precession of Earth's axes in 190 BCE by comparing his catalog…

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

In this paper we introduce a software package, the Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network SIMulator (VNSIM), which provides an integrated platform assisting radio astronomers to design the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-11 Zhen Zhao , Tao An , Baoqiang Lao

When comparing modern fundamental reference frames in the radio (International Celestial Reference Frame) and optical (Gaia), a couple of bright radio reference sources appear to have very large radio-optical offsets, from tens up to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-14 S. Frey , O. Titov , A. Melnikov , S. Lambert

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

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

Interferometry in the optical and near infrared has so far played a marginal role in Extragalactic Astronomy. Active Galactic Nuclei are the brightest and most compact extragalactic sources, nonetheless only a very limited number could be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Marconi , Roberto Maiolino , Romain G. Petrov