The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회보)
- Volume 42 Issue 2
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- Pages.57.2-57.2
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- 2017
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
Plan of the Extended KVN
KVN 확장 계획
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Byun, Do-Young
(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
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Lee, Sang-Sung
(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
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Jung, Taehyun
(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
- Wi, Seog Oh (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
- Kim, Hyun-Goo (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
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Cho, Se-Hyung
(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
- Minh, Young Chol (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
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Han, Seog Tae
(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
- Published : 2017.10.10
Abstract
KVN is a millimeter VLBI array composed of three 21m-diameter radio telescopes at Seoul, Ulsan and Jeju island in Korea. KVN has unique simultaneous multi-frequency receiving systems, which enable us to correct phase fluctuation of troposphere by transferring phase solution of low frequency data to higher frequency data. Although KVN can achieve very high performance up to 130 GHz through multi-frequency technique, imaging capability is highly limited because of lack of the number of baselines. In order to enhance imaging capability and maximizing multi-frequency capability, we plan to extend KVN baselines from 3 to 10 (or more) by constructing new KVN stations. This talk introduce expected performances, science cases, required budgets and periods of the Extended-KVN.
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