The new 64m Sardinia Radio Telescope and VLBI facilities in Italy
Date Issued
2015
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Abstract
The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) is a new major radio astronomical facility available in Italy for single dish and interferometric observations. It represents a flexible instrument for Radio Astronomy, Geodynamical studies and Space Science, either in single dish or VLBI mode. The SRT combines a 64m steerable collecting area, one of the largest all over the World with state-of-the-art technology (including an active surface) to enable high efficiency observations up to the 3-mm band.This new radio telescope together with the two 32m antennas in Noto and Medicina can be used for VLBI observations on a national basis (VLBIT). Data can be correlated in a short time (in real time soon) thanks to fiber-optics connection among the radio telescopes and the software correlator installed at the Radio Astronomy Institute in Bologna (IRA/INAF). In the poster I will present capabilities of the SRT telescope as well as the VLBIT project and I will shortly discuss the scientific prospects of the VLBIT.
Coverage
29th IAU General Assembly
Volume
29
Start page
2246761
Conferenece
29th IAU General Assembly
Conferenece place
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Conferenece date
3-14 August, 2015
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2015IAUGA..2246761G
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open.access
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