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Tape recorders for VLBI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Alan E. E. Rogers*
Affiliation:
Haystack Observatory Westford, Mass 01886

Abstract

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Magnetic tape recorders developed for VLBI have taken advantage of the best available technology to achieve high data rates and large storage capacity. The Mark I, II and III VLBI recording systems have data rates of 0.72, 4 and 224 Mbits/sec respectively. The recorder developed for the VLBA has a data rate of 256 Mbits/sec and can store 5.5 Terabits of data on one tape.

Type
Hardware for Interferometry
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991

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