2004/09/01 by M. A. Garrett, Garrett, M. A.
Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Superconducting and THz Device Technology #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0409021
4 pages, 3 figures. Paper presented in a conference held in Berlin "Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century", May 2004 proceedings to be published in the Springer-Verlag series "ESO Astrophysics Symposia"
arxiv created 2004/09/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The European VLBI Network (EVN) is in the process of establishing an e-VLBI array in which the radio telescopes and the EVN correlator at JIVE are connected in real-time, via high-speed national fibre optic networks and the pan-European research network, GEANT. This paper reports on recent test results, including the production of the first real-time e-VLBI astronomical image. In a parallel and related development, the field-of-view of VLBI is also expanding by many orders of magnitude, and the first results of deep, wide-field surveys capable of detecting many sources simultaneously are summarised. The detection of sources as faint as 10 microJy should soon be possible in the era of ``Mk5'' and e-VLBI.