Alternate Definitions for Very long baseline interferometry

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Term: Very long baseline interferometry
Definition:

A technique in radio interferometry in which the individual telescopes are not directly connected together, but instead make their observations separately with very accurate timings. The data are later sent to a central correlator to be combined. With this technique the individual telescopes can be arbitrarily far apart, and so the technique provides the highest resolution images in astronomy, typically down to a few milliarcseconds.

Created 2023.04.16
Last Modified 2023.04.16
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