VLBA antenna at St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

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The VLBA antenna at St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands is one of the ten radio telescopes in the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Long Baseline Array, providing a crucial Caribbean baseline for high-resolution astronomical observations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Very Long Baseline Array station
radio telescope
arrayMembership one of the ten fixed VLBA stations
arraySize one of ten antennas in the VLBA
contributesTo milliarcsecond-scale radio imaging
coordinateSystemRole reference point for VLBI geodesy networks
correlatedAt VLBA correlator facility NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dataRecordedAt local recording system for VLBA correlation
frequencyRange centimeter-wavelength radio frequencies
locatedIn St. Croix NERFINISHED
U.S. Virgin Islands NERFINISHED
networkRole easternmost VLBA station in the Caribbean region
observes radio continuum sources
spectral line emission
operatedBy National Radio Astronomy Observatory NERFINISHED
ownedBy National Science Foundation-supported facility (via NRAO)
partOf Very Long Baseline Array NERFINISHED
providesBaseline Caribbean baseline for the VLBA
scientificPurpose measurement of black hole jets
measurement of proper motions and parallaxes
study of compact radio sources
telescopeType parabolic dish radio antenna
usedFor astrometry
geodetic measurements
high angular resolution radio astronomy
imaging active galactic nuclei
observations of masers
observations of quasars
very long baseline interferometry

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Very Long Baseline Array hasAntenna VLBA antenna at St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands