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The Determination of Absolute Phase of a Long Baseline Interferometer and its Application to the Precise Measurement of the Constant of Nutation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

W. H. Cannon
Affiliation:
Physics Department, York University, Toronto, Canada
J. L. Yen
Affiliation:
Electrical Engineering Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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Long Baseline Interferometry (L.B.I.) refers to a dramatic technical breakthrough in astronomy accomplished almost exactly ten years ago in the spring of 1967 by a group of workers at the National Research Council of Canada and some major Canadian Universities. The Canadian effort was duplicated within a month by an independent American effort and it was realized soon afterward that the new technique of L.B.I. held enormous potential for geodynamical as well as astronomical studies.

Type
Session III
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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