A VLBI antenna at the island of Madeira

Pedro Augusto

Universidade da Madeira, Caminho da Penteada, 9000-390 Funchal, Portugal
Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda – Edifício Leste, 2º piso, 1349-018 Lisboa, Portugal

It is now 12 years since we started our project of placing a VLBI antenna at Madeira, ideally linked to the EVN (currently with 18 antennas). The EVN is now growing to become e-EVN with all antennas linked via fibre cable in order to do real time data acquisition and processing. On our side, we have completed all measurements required to inspect in detail the best sites in Madeira: weather, RFI and horizon profiling. We keep two excellent sites in Porto Moniz on hold for a final decision.

Class:	Poster
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Reference:	Augusto P., 'JENAM2010: The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science', Lisboa, 6-10 Setembro 2010.
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