VLBI techniques and LOFAR

Lecture at the GLOW interferometry school 30 Aug - 3 Sep 2010 in Hamburg

O. Wucknitz [1]

  1. AIfA, Bonn, Germany

Abstract

This lecture gives an overview of the fundamentals and practical aspects of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). Particularly mentioned are VLBI aspects of LOFAR. The first long-baseline LOFAR images are presented towards the end.

There is also a tutorial. See below.



download original presentation
PDF file (6.6 MB, last change 31 Aug 2010)
73 pages, suitable for presentation with acroread. This version also includes some hyperlinks for quick navigation.

download printable version (small)
PDF file (10.6 MB, last change 31 Aug 2010)
Paper saving version. 9 pages, text in b/w, colour figures. 8 slides per A4 page.

download movie 1: single-band delay/rate 3C196 20 Aug 2009, DE-NL
GIF file (700.0 kB, last change 29 Sep 2009)

download movie 2: incoherent all-band delay/rate 3C48 NL-NL with CygA+CasA
GIF file (21.3 MB, last change 29 Sep 2009)

download tutorial: instructions
TXT file (29.0 kB, last change 30 Aug 2010)
The tutorial has two parts: (1) fringe-fitting with AIPS and (2) imaging and self-calibration with difmap.

download tutorial: the complete package with data files
TGZ file (1.1 GB, last change 30 Aug 2010)
Download it using this link, or try the following:
cd ~
wget -O - http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~wucknitz/glow_vlbi.tgz | tar xvz
cd vlbi_lecture
The instructions can then be found in the file tutorial_vlbi.txt.


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