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VLBA Technical Justification Example

Technical Justification for Proposals

Since the actual Technical Justification depends strongly on the science, the frequencies and correlator setup, etc. it is difficult to give general guidelines. Instead, we present the example below, in this for case multi-epoch astrometry. Click to enlarge.

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Technical Justification for Proposals

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The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Green Bank Observatory are facilities of the U.S. National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.