A VLBI antenna for the Island of Madeira

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2010

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Augusto, P (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of Science

8th International Workshop on Identification of Dark Matter, IDM 2010

Montpellier, 26 July 2010 through 30 July 2010

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Authenticus ID: P-00P-P9X

Abstract (EN): It was almost exactly 12 years ago, at the 4th EVN Symposium, that we first presented our project of placing a VLBI antenna at Madeira, ideally linked to the EVN. Now, the 10th EVN Symposium has already passed. Twelve years ago there were 10 antennas on the EVN, now we have 18. A lot of things have changed during these 12 yrs, the EVN now growing to become e-EVN with all antennas linked via fibre cable in order to do real time data acquisition and processing. On our side, we have selected and completed all tasks required to inspect in detail the best sites in Madeira: weather, RFI, horizon profiling, etc. And rather than having a stalled or stopped project we have now become more ambitious. We are keeping two sites at Madeira as candidate locations, since they both fit all requirements for placing a top-class radio astronomical instrument. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific