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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…

GRAVITY is a new instrument to coherently combine the light of the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Interferometer to form a telescope with an equivalent 130 m diameter angular resolution and a collecting area of 200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 GRAVITY Collaboration , R. Abuter , M. Accardo , A. Amorim , N. Anugu , G. Ávila , N. Azouaoui , M. Benisty , J. P. Berger , N. Blind , H. Bonnet , P. Bourget , W. Brandner , R. Brast , A. Buron , L. Burtscher , F. Cassaing , F. Chapron , É. Choquet , Y. Clénet , C. Collin , V. Coudé du Foresto , W. de Wit , P. T. de Zeeuw , C. Deen , F. Delplancke-Ströbele , R. Dembet , F. Derie , J. Dexter , G. Duvert , M. Ebert , A. Eckart , F. Eisenhauer , M. Esselborn , P. Fédou , G. Finger , P. Garcia , C. E. Garcia Dabo , R. Garcia Lopez , E. Gendron , R. Genzel , S. Gillessen , F. Gonte , P. Gordo , M. Grould , U. Grözinger , S. Guieu , P. Haguenauer , O. Hans , X. Haubois , M. Haug , F. Haussmann , Th. Henning , S. Hippler , M. Horrobin , A. Huber , Z. Hubert , N. Hubin , C. A. Hummel , G. Jakob , A. Janssen , L. Jochum , L. Jocou , A. Kaufer , S. Kellner , L. Kern , P. Kervella , M. Kiekebusch , R. Klein , Y. Kok , J. Kolb , M. Kulas , S. Lacour , V. Lapeyrère , B. Lazareff , J. -B. Le Bouquin , P. Lèna , R. Lenzen , S. Lévêque , M. Lippa , Y. Magnard , L. Mehrgan , M. Mellein , A. Mérand , J. Moreno-Ventas , T. Moulin , E. Müller , F. Müller , U. Neumann , S. Oberti , T. Ott , L. Pallanca , J. Panduro , L. Pasquini , T. Paumard , I. Percheron , K. Perraut , G. Perrin , A. Pflüger , O. Pfuhl , T. Phan Duc , P. M. Plewa , D. Popovic , S. Rabien , A. Ramírez , J. Ramos , C. Rau , M. Riquelme , R. -R. Rohloff , G. Rousset , J. Sanchez-Bermudez , S. Scheithauer , M. Schöller , N. Schuhler , J. Spyromilio , C. Straubmeier , E. Sturm , M. Suarez , K. R. W. Tristram , N. Ventura , F. Vincent , I. Waisberg , I. Wank , J. Weber , E. Wieprecht , M. Wiest , E. Wiezorrek , M. Wittkowski , J. Woillez , B. Wolff , S. Yazici , D. Ziegler , G. Zins

We have obtained mas-scale resolution very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) images of a sample of Seyfert 1 and Seyfert 2 galaxies at 5 GHz (wavelength, $\lambda$ = 6 cm). The Seyferts of the two types were chosen to be matched in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dharam Vir Lal , Prajval Shastri , Denise C. Gabuzda

We present science cases and instrument design considerations for the BIFROST instrument that will open the short-wavelength (Y/J/H-band), high spectral dispersion (up to R=25,000) window for the VLT Interferometer. BIFROST will be part of…

The paper presents the results of the largest to date VLBI absolute astrometry campaign of observations of 13,645 radio sources with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Of them, 7220 have been detected, including 6755 target sources that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Leonid Petrov

We present spectropolarimetry of 19 confirmed and 4 possible bright, southern broad absorption line (BAL) quasars from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). A wide range of redshifts is covered in the sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael A. DiPompeo , Michael S. Brotherton , Carlos De Breuck

By utilizing the quadratic dependency of the interferometry phase on time, the Hannover Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometer facility (VLBAI) aims for sub nm/s$^2$ gravity measurement sensitivity. With its 10 m vertical baseline, VLBAI…

Summarizes current status of radio interferometry at radio frequencies between Earth-based receivers, for astrometric and geodetic applications. Emphasizes theoretical models of VLBI observables that are required to extract results at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ojars J. Sovers , John L. Fanselow , Christopher S. Jacobs

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…

We report on recent technical developments in the front- and back-ends for the four 20 m radio telescopes of the Japanese Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) project, VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). We present a brief…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yoshiaki Hagiwara , Kazuhiro Hada , Mieko Takamura , Tomoaki Oyama , Aya Yamauchi , Syunsaku Suzuki

This paper presents the fourth extension to the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey, containing 258 new sources not previously observed with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). This survey, based on three 24 hour VLBA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Petrov , Y. Y. Kovalev , E. Fomalont , D. Gordon

The ESPRI project relies on the astrometric capabilities offered by the PRIMA facility of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer for the discovery and study of planetary systems. Our survey consists of obtaining high-precision astrometry…

The Very Small Array (VSA) is a fourteen-element interferometer designed to study the cosmic microwave background on angular scales of 2.4 to 0.2 degrees (angular multipoles l = 150 to 1800). It operates at frequencies between 26 and 36…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Angela C. Taylor

This paper presents the fifth part of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey (VCS), containing 569 sources not observed previously with very long baseline interferometry in geodetic or absolute astrometry programs. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Y. Kovalev , L. Petrov , E. B. Fomalont , D. Gordon

Long-baseline interferometry and high-resolution spectroscopy are two examples of areas that have benefited from astrophotonics devices, but the application range is expanding to other subareas and other wavelength ranges. The VLTI has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Lucas Labadie

Infrared interferometry is a new frontier for precision ground based observing, with new instrumentation achieving milliarcsecond (mas) spatial resolutions for faint sources, along with astrometry on the order of 10 microarcseconds. This…

Water vapour in the atmosphere is the main source of the atmospheric opacity in the infrared and sub-millimetric regimes and its value plays a critical role in observations done with instruments working at these wavelengths on ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Alessio Turchi , Elena Masciadri , Florian Kerber , Gianluca Martelloni , -

The ESPRESSO spectrograph at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has, since it began science operations in October 2018, revolutionised exoplanet science. The combination of the large VLT mirrors and the high resolution and stability of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Louise Dyregaard Nielsen , Julia Victoria Seidel

In the last few years, integrated optics (IO) beam combiners have facilitated the emergence of 4-telescope interferometers such as PIONIER or GRAVITY, boosting the imaging capabilities of the VLTI. However, the spectral range beyond…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Jan Tepper , Lucas Labadie , Romina Diener , Stefano Minardi , Jörg-Uwe Pott , Robert R. Thomson , Stefan Nolte

Benchmark stars with known angular diameters are key to calibrating interferometric observations. With the advent of optical interferometry, there is a need for suitably bright, well-vetted calibrator stars over a large portion of the sky.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-20 Samuel J. Swihart , E. Victor Garcia , Keivan G. Stassun , Gerard van Belle , Matthew W. Mutterspaugh , Nicholas Elias