long-baseline interferometer

C42190
concept

A long-baseline interferometer is an instrument that combines signals from widely separated telescopes or antennas to achieve the resolving power of a much larger aperture for high-precision measurements and imaging.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
VLBA station 6
astronomical interferometer 1
long-baseline interferometer canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: long-baseline interferometer
Generated description
A long-baseline interferometer is an instrument that combines signals from widely separated telescopes or antennas to achieve the resolving power of a much larger aperture for high-precision measurements and imaging.

Instances (8)

Instance Via concept surface
Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (partnership)
surface form: Navy Precision Optical Interferometer
Palomar Testbed Interferometer astronomical interferometer
VLBA antenna at Hancock, New Hampshire VLBA station
VLBA antenna at North Liberty, Iowa VLBA station
VLBA antenna at Pie Town, New Mexico VLBA station
VLBA antenna at Owens Valley, California VLBA station
VLBA antenna at Brewster, Washington VLBA station
VLBA antenna at Mauna Kea, Hawaii VLBA station