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The Life and Times of the Parkes-Tidbinbilla Interferometer

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arxiv 1210.0988 v1 pith:EWVMWSSZ submitted 2012-10-03 astro-ph.IM

The Life and Times of the Parkes-Tidbinbilla Interferometer

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The Parkes-Tidbinbilla took advantage of a real-time radio-link connecting the Parkes and Tidbinbilla antennas to form the world's longest real-time interferometer, perhaps the earliest example of eVLBI. Built on a minuscule budget, it was an extraordinarily successful instrument, generating some 24 journal papers including 3 Nature papers, as well as facilitating the early development of the Australia Telescope Compact Array. Here we describe its origins, construction, successes, and life cycle, and discuss the future use of single-baseline interferometers in the era of SKA and its pathfinders.

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