Ground Based Vlbi Facilities – the European and Global Vlbi Network
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For a comprehensive guide to the various array characteristics, corresponding correlator capabilities, range of diverse observing modes, different proposal submission procedures, user support etc., I refer the reader to the on-line web pages highlighted above. In this paper I have chosen to focus on a sub-set of these facilities, in particular the European VLBI Network (EVN) both in stand-alone mode but also as a major component of a Global VLBI Network, involving MERLIN (see www.merlin.ac.uk) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA – see Zensus, Diamond & Napier 1995, for a comprehensive review).
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