A submillimeter VLBI arrayстатья из журнала
Аннотация: A VLBI array operating at λ 1.3 mm and 0.8 mm is being designed using existing submillimeter telescopes as ad-hoc stations. Initial three station λ = 1.3 mm observations of SgrA* and other AGN have produced remarkable results, which are reported by Doeleman elsewhere in this proceedings. Future observations are planned with an enhanced array which has longer baselines, more stations, and greater sensitivity. At λ = 0.8 mm and on the long baselines, the array will have about a 20 μas angular resolution which equals the diameter of the event horizon of the massive black hole in SgrA*. Candidate single dish facilities include the Arizona Radio Observatory Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) in Arizona, the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) and the James Clerk Maxwell telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii, the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico, ASTE and APEX in Chile, and the IRAM 30 m in Spain; interferometers include the Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) in California, IRAM PdB Interferometer in France, and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. I will discuss the techniques we have developed for phasing interferometric arrays to act as single VLBI station. A strategy for detection of short (10s) time-scale source variability using VLBI closure phase will be described.
Год издания: 2008
Авторы: Jonathan Weintroub
Издательство: IOP Publishing
Источник: Journal of Physics Conference Series
Ключевые слова: Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
Открытый доступ: gold
Том: 131
Страницы: 012047–012047