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Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
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Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC
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Address:
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Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4, Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE), Dwingeloo, PO: 7991PD, Drenthe (Netherlands)
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Location
Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4, EVN/JIVE, Dwingeloo, PO: 7991 PD (Netherlands)
Structure
Type Of RI
Distributed
Coordinating Country
Netherlands
Participating Countries
China
Finland
Netherlands
Italy
Puerto Rico
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Poland
Russia
Sweden
Latvia
South Africa
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
since 1980
Scientific Description
The European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (EVN) is a distributed network of radio telescopes located across the EU and beyond. EVN telescopes located within the EU include: Effelsberg (DE), Jodrell Bank and Cambridge (UK), Westerbork (NL), Onsala (SE), Medicina, Noto and Sardinia (IT), Yebes (ES), Torun (PL), Metsähovi (FI), and Irbene (LV). When conducting EVN observations, participating telescopes operate as a single entity. Signals from each telescope are combined together at a central processing facility at the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (Dwingeloo, NL) for correlation. There are additional EVN telescopes in Russia (3), China (2), South Africa, and Puerto Rico. Joint observations with the UK MERLIN array and telescopes operated by NRAO (U.S.) are made on a regular basis.
RI Keywords
High resolution radio astronomical observations, Radioastronomy, E-EVN, Interferometry, VLBI, Correlator
Classifications
RI Category
Telescopes
Scientific Domain
Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Mathematics
ESFRI Domain
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Services
Access to the radio astronomical array
Logistical, technological and scientific support.
Equipment
EVN telescopes
21 individual antennas with diameter of 14 m - 305 m and a baseline up to 10.000 km. Wavelength range: 0.7 cm - 90 cm, max. angular resolution: 0,5 mas (K-band).
Access
Users
Users Definition
Teams of individual researchers
Collaborations
Networks
RadioNet3
Date of last update: 09/05/2018
