Electronic Transmission and Computation of Very Long Baseline Interferometry and Its Application to Next Generation Radio Telescopes
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Australia is contributing to the next generation radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will have a collecting area of one million square metres. The SKA will be a digital radio telescope that will rely on high-speed data communications for routine global electronic transmission of VLBI data and some traditional analog stages will be replaced by software-defined blocks on fast processors.
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