An Unofficial Account of the Beginnings of VLBI Polarimetry: From Jodrell Bank to the Event Horizon Telescope
I offer a brief and personal history of the development of polarization sensitive observations with widely separated antennas. The story starts at Jodrell Bank in the late 1960s with a 24 km baseline radio linked (but not phase stable) interferometer and reaches to the present Event Horizon Telescop...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-07-01
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Series: | Galaxies |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/9/3/52 |