http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14518
We present here the East Asia to Italy Nearly Global VLBI (EATING VLBI) project. How this project started and the evolution of the international collaboration between Korean, Japanese, and Italian researchers to study compact sources with VLBI observations is reported. Problems related to the synchronization of the very different arrays and technical details of the telescopes involved are presented and discussed. The relatively high observation frequency (22 and 43 GHz) and the long baselines between Italy and East Asia produced high-resolution images. We present example images to demonstrate the typical performance of the EATING VLBI array. The results attracted international researchers and the collaboration is growing, now including Chinese and Russian stations. New in progress projects are discussed and future possibilities with a larger number of telescopes and a better frequency coverage are briefly discussed herein.
G. Giovannini, Y. Cui, K. Hada, et. al.
Tue, 28 Mar 23
27/81
Comments: 15 pages and 6 figures. This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges in Understanding Black Hole Powered Jets with VLBI
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