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Burst Mode VLBI and Pulsar Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R.D. Wietfeldt  and
D.A. Frail
R.D. Wietfeldt
Affiliation:
Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science, Space Geodynamics Laboratory, 2700 Steeles Ave.W., Toronto, L4K 3C8, CANADA
D.A. Frail
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory*, Socorro, NM, 87801, USA

Abstract

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The technique of Burst Mode (BM) VLBI is described and its particular application to the observations of pulsars is explored. The wideband pulsed radiation from these objects is exploited to acquire data at two ends of an interferometer baseline in high-speed bursts and only during the pulsar on-times. The result at the VLBI correlator is an improvement in sensitivity by as much as the inverse pulsar duty cycle, and is a consequence of the bandwidth expansion offered by BM and the intrinsic use of gating. As a result, precision astrometrical studies of pulsars will benefit through the greatly increased instantaneous bandwidths achieved by pulsar BM. The problems, implications, and limitations of acquiring and processing pulsar BM data are discussed.

Type
Hardware for Interferometry
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 131: Radio Interferometry: Theory, Techniques, and Applications , 1991 , pp. 76 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991

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