IVIA - Ibero-American VLBI Initiative -Progress on the Brazilian side

Abstract IVIA is a joint initiative of at least 8 Latin-American countries plus Portugal and Spain to make good use of large telecommunications antennas that are out of service in these countries, because most international communications are now using submarine cables. The first step will be to refurbish the antennas and then to start doing single dish observations of radiosources. In a second step the antennas will be equipped with VLBI (Very Long Base Interferometry) equipment, to establish a VLBI network. This project will be able to effectively promote scientific integration in Ibero-America. The work is starting in several countries; here we present several scientific cases for the use of the antennas, and we report on the first Brasilian activities.

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Main Authors:	LEPINE,JACQUES R.D., RAULIN,JEAN PIERRE, DOMINICI,TANIA, CASTRO,CARLOS GUILLERMO G. DE, ROIG,FERNANDO VIRGILIO, WIERMANN,ANDRÉ, FERNANDES,MARCELO BORGES, HADANO,YASUCHI, CORRERA,FATIMA SALETE, BECCARO,WESLEY, LUQUEZE,MARCOS AURELIO, VERRI,ANTONIO SANDRO, ZANELLA,DANILO CESAR, MENÉNDEZ-DELMESTRE,KARIN, GONÇALVES,THIAGO SIGNORINI, ALMEIDA,ULISSES BARRES DE, FIGUEREDO,MILITÃO VIEIRA
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2021
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652021000200416
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