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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John Wardle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Galaxies
Subjects:
AGN
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/9/3/52