The Very Long Baseline Array

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 658-672

  Napier, Peter J ^a   Bagri, Durgadas S ^a   Clark, Barry G ^a   Romney, Jonathan D ^a   Walker, R Craig ^a   Rogers, Alan E ^b   Thompson, A Richard ^c  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; CORRELATORS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ARRAY OPERATIONS CENTER; SYNTHESIS ARRAYS; VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0028429592     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.284733     Document Type: Article

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