Very Long Baseline Array
(VLBA)
(radio interferometer stretching 8000 km)
The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
is an interferometer consisting of 10 25 meter
radio telescopes spread across North America from
Hawaii to the Virgin Islands supporting a maximum
baseline of 5300 miles, i.e., very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI).
Its control room is in Socorro, New Mexico.
It observes wavelengths from 28 cm to 3 mm
in eight bands plus two narrow longer-wavelength
bands.
It is also used with additional radio telescopes
for longer baselines, known as the HSA (for High-Sensitivity Array).
This gives them angular resolutions
for the shorter wavelengths
as small as fractions of a milliarcsecond.
(observatory,radio,interferometer,NRAO,array,VLBI,distributed)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Long_Baseline_Array
http://www.vlba.nrao.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991ASPC...19..390N/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006ASPC..356..109B/abstract
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 3mm | 100GHz | 413μeV | begin | Very Long Baseline Array |
| 28cm | 1.1GHz | 4.5μeV | end | Very Long Baseline Array |
|
Referenced by pages:
angular resolution
Cosmic Lens All-sky Survey (CLASS)
Gould's Belt Distances Survey (GOBELINS)
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO)
MOJAVE
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO)
very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI)
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