BAUDRY, Alain

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BAUDRY, Alain
Laboratoire d'astrodynamique, d'astrophysique et d'aéronomie de bordeaux [L3AB]
Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers [OASU]
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] [LAB]

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19th European VLBI for Geodesy and Astrometry Working Meeting, held in Bordeaux, France, March 24-25, 2009, 19th European VLBI for Geodesy and Astrometry Working Meeting, held in Bordeaux, France, March 24-25, 2009, 2009, Bordeaux. 2009p. 165-168

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VLBI is not currently supported in the present ALMA construction plan. How- ever, the ALMA high gain antennas are equipped with receivers spanning several fre- quency ranges of interest to perform future mil- limetre (mm)/submillimetre (submm) VLBI ob- servations. The phased outputs of the full ALMA array or of subsets of the ALMA an- tennas will be supported in the future. In the mm/submm domain where spatial resolution is high but sensitivity is low in general, addition of the large ALMA collecting area to existing or fu- ture VLBI arrays would provide a definite detec- tion or mapping advantage. Fine details of com- pact components in bright AGNs and highly red- shifted sources could be revealed with good sen- sitivity −even though the brightest sources could remain unresolved with the longest terrestrial baselines. We briefly comment on the impor- tance of relatively short VLBI baselines (in the 100–1000 km range) to: (i) map the mm/submm cosmic maser sources excited in evolved stars or galactic star-forming regions; (ii) perform high precision astrometry of nearby stars. Finally, on the basis of recent ideas discussed in the ALMA correlator team, we briefly comment on the abil- ity of the ALMA correlator to support VLBI op- eration.< Réduire

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Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux (LAB) - UMR 5804