Development and performance of the real-time VLBI correlator (RVC)

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E83-B, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2527-2534

  Iguchi, Satoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fringe rotator; Lag time extension; Real time; VLBI; VSOP

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION CIRCUIT; FRINGE ROTATOR; LAG TIME EXTENSION TECHNIQUE; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

CORRELATORS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFEROMETERS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0034315226     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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