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Optical imaging with microarcsecond resolution will reveal details across and outside stellar surfaces but requires kilometer-scale interferometers, challenging to realize either on the ground or in space. Intensity interferometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Dainis Dravins

Determining the energy spectrum of an electron population can give key insights into the underlying physics of a radio source; however, the lack of high resolution, broad-bandwidth observations has left many ambiguities in our understanding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-01 J. J. Harwood , M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston , A. Stroe , R. Morganti , E. Orru

VLBI astrometry allows coordinates of celestial radio sources to be determined with submilliarcsecond accuracy. In particular, with differential VLBI astrometry, the standard errors of relative positions and proper motions can be as small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert Bartel

I review here the present observational efforts to study parsec-scale radio jets in active galactic nuclei with very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) as related to the new window to the Universe opened by the LAT instrument on-board the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-07 Eduardo Ros

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,…

The Gaia celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF) will benefit from a close assessment with independent methods, such as Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) measurements of radio stars at bright magnitudes. However, obtaining full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Jingdong Zhang , Bo Zhang , Shuangjing Xu , Niu Liu , Wen Chen , Hao Ding , Pengfei Jiang , Yan Sun , Jinqing Wang , Lang Cui , Shiming Wen , Xiaofeng Mai , Jinling Li , Fengchun Shu , Yidan Huang

We propose the development of X-ray interferometry (XRI), to reveal the universe at high energies with ultra-high spatial resolution. With baselines which can be accommodated on a single spacecraft, XRI can reach 100 $\mu$as resolution at…

The problem of phaseless aperture synthesis is of current interest in phase-unstable VLBI with a small number of elements when either the use of closure phases is not possible (a two-element interferometer) or their quality and number are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anisa T. Bajkova

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

Over the past two decades, our knowledge of the high-redshift (z > 5) radio quasars has expanded, thanks to dedicated high-resolution very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations. Distant quasars provide unique information about…

Low-frequency radio observations of neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionization will provide hundreds of quasi-independent source planes, each of precisely known redshift, if a resolution of ~ 1 arcminutes or better…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 R. Benton Metcalf

Low-frequency spectral studies of radio pulsars represent a key method for uncovering their emission mechanisms, magnetospheric structure, and signal interactions with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). In recent years, more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Ting Yu , Zhongli Zhang , Hongyu Gong , Zhigang Wen

Recent technological advances could make interstellar travel possible, using ultra-lightweight sails pushed by lasers or solar photon pressure, at speeds of a few percent the speed of light. Obtaining remote observational data from such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-17 Michael Hippke

We have used VSOP space very long baseline interferometry observations to measure the brightness temperature distribution of a well-defined sub-set of the Pearson-Readhead sample of extragalactic radio sources. VLBI which is restricted to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. J. Tingay

The ionosphere is the main driver of a series of systematic effects that limit our ability to explore the low frequency (<1 GHz) sky with radio interferometers. Its effects become increasingly important towards lower frequencies and are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 F. de Gasperin , M. Mevius , D. A. Rafferty , H. T. Intema , R. A. Fallows

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 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

Advancements in VLBI instrumentation, driven by the geodetic community's goal of achieving positioning accuracy of 1 mm and stability of 0.1 mm/y, have led to the development of new broadband systems. Here, we assess the potential of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 A. Jaradat , G. Molera Calvés , J. Edwards , S. Ellingsen , T. McCarthy , J. Morgan

We report on slow phase variations of the response of the space-ground radio interferometer RadioAstron during observations of pulsar B0329+54. The phase variations are due to the ionosphere and clearly distinguishable from effects of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 M. V. Popov , N. Bartel , M. S. Burgin , T. V. Smirnova , V. A. Soglasnov