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The Very Long Baseline Array

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Peter J. Napier*
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801, USA

Abstract

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The Very Long Baseline Array, currently under construction, is a dedicated VLBI array consisting of ten 25m diameter antennas and a 20 station correlator. The key design features that make it a flexible, general purpose instrument are reviewed and some details are provided of the array layout, frequency coverage and sensitivity.

Type
Interferometric Telescopes
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991

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