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Very long baseline interferometry  

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  • A technique in radio interferometry in which the individual telescopes are not directly connected together, but instead make their observations separately with very accurate timings. The data are later sent to a central correlator to be combined. With this technique the individual telescopes can be arbitrarily far apart, and so the technique provides the highest resolution images in astronomy, typically down to a few milliarcseconds. (en)

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  • VLBI (en)
  • VLB interferometry (en)

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http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1769

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