The VSOP-2 Project: A second generation space-VLBI mission ranging to mm-wavelengths

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1646-1656

  Hirabayashi, Hisashi ^a   Murata, Yasuhiro ^a   Asaki, Yoshiharu ^a   Edwards, Philip G ^a   Mochizuki, Nanako ^a   Natori, Michihiro C ^a   Inoue, Makoto ^b   Umemoto, Tomofumi ^b   Kameno, Seiji ^b   Kono, Yusuke ^b   Tsuboi, Masato ^b   Kasuga, Takashi ^c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Radio astronomy; Satellite instrumentation; Space VLBI; VLBI

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT;

INTERSTELLAR SCATTERING; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTATION; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY (VLBI); VLBI;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 10044263392     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.563417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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