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We revisit the "Cluster-Cluster" or multi-view Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry (VLBI) technique from the perspective of its synergy with the multi-beam features inherent in the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)and its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 M. J. Rioja , R. Dodson , R. W. Porcas , D. Ferris , J. Reynolds , T. Sasao , R. T. Schilizzi

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

From 43GHz VLBA observations of the pair of radio sources 1928+738 and 2007+777 we have demonstrated the feasibility of precision phase-delay differential astrometric techniques at millimeter wavelengths. For a pair of sources with 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Guirado , J. M. Marcaide , M. A. Perez-Torres , E. Ros

We discuss the importance of the direct link between the most accurate radio and optical reference frames that will become possible with the next-generation space astrometry missions in about a decade. The positions of more than 500 active…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Frey , P. Veres , K. Vida

Global VLBI imaging at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength overcomes the opacity barrier of synchrotron self-absorption in AGN and opens the direct view into sub-pc scale regions not accessible before. Since AGN variability is more…

By sending one or more telescopes into space, Space-VLBI (SVLBI) is able to achieve even higher angular resolution and is therefore the trend of the VLBI technique. For SVLBI program, the design of satellite orbits plays an important role…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Lei Liu , Weimin Zheng

Finding a suitable very long baseline (VLBI) interferometer geometry is a key task in planning observations, especially imaging sessions. The main characteristic of the quality of VLBI imaging data is the (u, v)-coverage. In the case when…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 I. I. Bulygin , M. A. Shchurov , A. G. Rudnitskiy

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

Dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) and supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) at kpc and pc-scale separations, respectively, are expected during stages of galaxy merger and evolution. Their observational identification can address a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Tao An , P. Mohan , Sandor Frey

We have been developing a novel interferometer formed directly between a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope and a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) antenna/receiver. This interferometer is enabled by the High…

VLT-Interferometry will allow imaging of the Galactic Center (GC) and the nuclei of extragalactic sources at an angular resolution of a few milliarcseconds. VLTI will be a prime instrument to study the immediate environment of the massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. -U. Pott , A. Glindemann , A. Eckart , M. Schoeller , C. Leinert , T. Viehmann , M. Robberto

This paper introduces a new instrument enabling a novel combination of Earth measuring techniques: direct observations with the radio astronomical instruments to satellites of the global navigation satellite systems. Inter-technique biases…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Lucia McCallum , David Schunck , Jamie McCallum , Tiege McCarthy

The application of VLBI to scientific problems has undergone a relentless expansion since its conception, yet the potential for further expansion is still large. We are on the cusp of revolutionary progress given the arrival of a host of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 María J. Rioja , Richard Dodson

We present an analysis of the detection fraction and the number counts of radio sources imaged with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) at 1.4 GHz as part of the mJIVE-20 survey. From a sample of 24,903 radio sources identified by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-31 S. Rezaei , J. P. McKean , A. T. Deller , J. F. Radcliffe

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…

We present pc-scale images of ten Compact Symmetric Objects (CSO) candidates observed with the European VLBI network (EVN). Five radio sources have been observed at 1.6 GHz, and five more at 2.3/8.4 GHz, the latter subsample with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Liu Xiang , Carlo Stanghellini , Daniele Dallacasa , Zhang Haiyan

Some models of the expanding Universe predict that the astrometric proper motion of distant radio sources embedded in space-time are non-zero as the radial distance from observer to the source grows. Systematic proper motion effects would…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-01 Oleg Titov , Sebastien Lambert

Fundamental changes are taking place in the way we do astronomy. In twenty years time, it is likely that most astronomers will never go near a cutting-edge telescope, which will be much more efficiently operated in service mode. They will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-01 Ray P. Norris

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…

VLTi Spectro-Imager (VSI) is a proposition for a second generation VLTI instrument which is aimed at providing the ESO community with the capability of performing image synthesis at milli-arcsecond angular resolution. VSI provides the VLTI…