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Thirty Years of VLBI: Early Days, Successes, and Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J.M. Moran
J.M. Moran*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

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The early days of VLBI are discussed, with emphasis on the fifteen experiments performed in the U.S. and Canada in 1967. Some key technical ideas are described that influenced the development of the technique, including digital fringe rotation, bandwidth synthesis, spectral phase referencing, phase closure and self-calibration, and water vapor radiometry.

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 164: Radio Emission from Galactic and Extragalactic Compact Sources , 1998 , pp. 1 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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