Proposal Identification No.: V2836 Date Received: 2013-Mar-01 12:33:07 Technical Page This proposal has not been submitted before. Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular VLBI Galactic 30 hrs Hours 1hr Studies of Scattered Pulsars on the Longest Baselines We propose observations of strong pulsars on the longest VLBI baselines yet attained, up to 300,000 km. ...

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... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Additional Scope for ALMA Long Baseline Science Verification Targets . ... The ALMA Long Baseline Campaign, taking place from 1 September to 30 November 2014, has been proceeding well. As a result, the observatory has decided to expand the scope of the capabilities to be demonstrated with two Science Verification (SV) targets with Band 7: the pre-main sequence star HL Tau and the gravitational lens SDP 81. ...

VLBI proposal guide . VLBI proposal guide (PostScript 50 kbytes) . Available VLBI antennas - System Parameters . Available VLBI antennas - System Parameters (PostScript 42 kbytes) . VLBI antenna locations and baselines . VLBI antenna locations and baselines (PostScript 35 kbytes) . Proposal forms for all ATNF facilities are available in PostScript (.ps) and LaTeX (.tex) formats. ... PostScript Format (110 kbytes) . LaTeX Format (35 kbytes) . ... JPL Space VLBI home page . ...

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Find Similar Abstracts (with default settings below ) . ... Translate Abstract . ... Bispectrum speckle interferometry and future long-baseline interferometry of the carbon star IRC+10216 . ... 2003SPIE.4838.1055B We present near-infrared (JHK) bispectrum speckle-interferometry monitoring of IRC+10216 obtained with the SAO 6m telescope. The present speckle observations covering baselines up to 6m provide important complementary informations for future long-baseline interferometry. ...

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... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

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... Our results shown the importance of the ratio for the emmissivity of and the role of molecular oxygen in the thermal balance. has not yet been detected in interstellar clouds but we obtained the first tentative detection of . ... Modelling the chemistry and the rotational excitation of oxygen . ... The steady state model . ... Figure 1: The steady state model of interstellar clouds . ... Figure 3: The 368 GHz line of in dense clouds: a) for different values of , b) for different values of the ratio ...