VLBI

The VLBI is a special network of radio telescopes from all over the world that together have the resolving power of a telescope thousands of miles in diameter.

Livescience.com 2009

The next talk was on the ground-breaking work done with millimeter-wave VLBI and was given by Shep Doelman of MIT Haystack.

Archive 2009-01-08 Nicole 2009

This e-VLBI project will be watched by many radio astronomers, I am sure!

Archive 2009-01-12 Nicole 2009

If you know me, you know I have a soft spot for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI).

VLBA Sees a Beefier Milky Way Nicole 2009

So check out the earlier link, which includes an overview of VLBI and a basic introduction to the monster black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

Archive 2009-01-08 Nicole 2009

However, I don't know much about it, now have I seen too much astronomical data that actually used it in my short time doing VLBI as an undergrad.

Archive 2009-01-08 Nicole 2009

The new VLBI research resolved the radio emission to just 4 times the size of the black hole (or 4 Schwarzschild radii).

Archive 2009-01-08 Nicole 2009

This, as you may know, is my game ever since I got hooked doing a VLBI project back in 2003.

New Year Round-up! Nicole 2009

At the end of the session, Adam Deller, now of the NRAO and also affiliated with PAPER (soon anyway!) talked about his software correlator for the VLBA and other VLBI instruments.

Archive 2009-01-08 Nicole 2009

However, I don't know much about it, now have I seen too much astronomical data that actually used it in my short time doing VLBI as an undergrad.

URSI Update #2 Nicole 2009