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The VSOP 2 mission: Imaging capabilities

2004/03/18 by Richard Dodson, R. Dodson, H. Hirabayashi +13
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Planetary Science and Exploration #Spacecraft Design and Technology #Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0403433

Poster presentation at the Space Science Symposium, ISAS, Jan 2004

arxiv created 2004/03/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Given the scientific goals of VSOP-2, including the possibility of observations of the shadows of black holes, we have investigated the fidelity of the recovered images given a typical uv-coverage. We find that we can achieve a dynamic range of better than 1000:1.

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