Lecture - Technical realization: Current and Upcoming Radio Interferometers

In this chapter some important centimeter-band arrays are introduced, namely the  Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA), the Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (e-MERLIN), the Australian Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), the Karoo Array Telescope (MeerKAT), which is a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA; see Chapt. 4 Sect. 4), the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), the European VLBI Network (EVN), the Australian Long Baseline Array (LBA), the Japanese VLBI Network (JVN), the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy array (VERA), the Korean VLBI Network (KVN) and the African VLBI Network (AVN). All these arrays and the locations of their telescopes are shown on Fig. XX. In the following some important information on these centimeter-band arrays are given based on the telescope websites.

Fig. 4.2 Global map of important centimeter-band radio interferometer arrays presented in this course.