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Operating a Telescope Larger than the Earth: How to Schedule the HALCA Space VLBI Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D. L. Meier*
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91109, U.S.A.

Abstract

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We outline the HALCA Space VLBI mission scheduling process, with special emphasis placed on software that decides when to observe the proposed sources and how to ensure that the highest quality science is obtained. This information will be useful to the many principal investigators whose very high resolution VLBI observations are being supported by the mission.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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