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ARISE - A Proposed Future Space VLBI Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J. S. Ulvestad
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM, U.S.A.
R. P. Linfield
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Abstract

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We are developing a future space VLBI mission, ARISE, that would involve placing a VLBA-equivalent radio telescope in a highly elliptical Earth orbit. The telescope would operate at VLBI frequencies of 5, 22, 43, and 86 GHz, as well as being capable of single-dish operation at 60 GHz. Fringe-detection thresholds will be less than 10 mJy except at 86 GHz. Key scientific goals include dual-polarization imaging of blazars on the same physical scale as their γ-ray emission, astrophysical and astrometric studies of extragalactic water megamasers, and single-dish observations of O2.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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