Bibcode
Jones, D. L.; Allen, R.; Basart, J.; Bastian, T.; Blume, W.; Bougeret, J.-L.; Dennison, B.; Desch, M.; Dwarakanath, K.; Erickson, W.; Farrell, W.; Finley, D.; Gopalswamy, N.; Howard, R.; Kaiser, M.; Kassim, N.; Kuiper, T.; MacDowall, R.; Mahoney, M.; Perley, R.; Preston, R.; Reiner, M.; Rodriguez, P.; Stone, R.; Unwin, S.; Weiler, K.; Woan, G.; Woo, R.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astrophysical Phenomena Revealed by Space VLBI, Proceedings of the VSOP Symposium, held at the Institute of Space and astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, January 19 - 21, 2000, Eds.: H. Hirabayashi, P.G. Edwards, and D.W. Murphy, Published by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, p. 265-268.
Fecha de publicación:
4
2000
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Descripción
At sufficiently low frequencies, no ground-based radio array will be
able to produce high resolution images while looking through the
ionosphere. A space-based array will be needed to explore the objects
and processes which dominate the sky at the lowest radio frequencies. An
imaging radio interferometer based on a large number of small,
inexpensive satellites would be able to track solar radio bursts
associated with coronal mass ejections out to the distance of Earth,
determine the frequency and duration of early epochs of nonthermal
activity in galaxies, and provide unique information about the
interstellar medium. This would be a ``space-space" VLBI mission, as
only baselines between satellites would be used. Angular resolution
would be limited only by interstellar and interplanetary scattering.