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<b><span style="font-size:18pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; margin:0px; color:rgb(95,96,98); background:white">ACAMAR Workshop on VLBI: Towards a Sino-Australia high-sensitivity VLBI array, 20-21 October 2022</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">The program for this workshop has now been released and can be viewed via the
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black">China and Australia are located in similar time zones, and an equatorial region of the sky can be simultaneously observed by telescopes in both countries. In addition, the combined array including the Chinese
VLBI Network, the southern hemisphere Long Baseline Array (LBA), the Indian GMRT and the South African SKA can offer excellent uv-coverage for equatorial sources. The recent successful commissioning of VLBI experiments involving FAST, Shanghai Tianma 65m,
Urumqi Nanshan 26m and LBA reminds us of the phrase “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts” and showcases the possibility of an Asia-Pacific L-band high-sensitivity VLBI array formed with LBA, FAST and other Chinese telescopes (and even telescopes
further afield) within a 5-year time frame. Hence, FAST VLBI would serve as an imminent testbed of a high-sensitivity VLBI array in the pre-SKA era. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black">Both China and Australia’s radio astronomy communities have abundant expertise and facilities for constructing a high-sensitivity VLBI array. This workshop will focus on building potential Sino-Australian
collaboration related to the establishment and operation of an equatorial high-sensitivity VLBI network and will provide a great opportunity for VLBI-related researchers from both countries to present their fresh scientific results and the latest developments
in VLBI facilities and technologies. You can find out further details from the<span> </span></span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6qSYC6XQ4Lfo6DojOcp9NVd?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://astronomyaustralia.org.au/event/acamar-themed-workshop-on-vlbi-towards-a-sino-australia-high-sensitivity-vlbi-arrray/" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px; color:blue; text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px">workshop
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; margin:0px; color:black">Sessions </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black">• VLBI facilities and activities </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black">• Active Galactic Nuclei and Jets </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black">• Pulsars, FRBs and other transients</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black">• Astrometry </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black">• Commissioning FAST VLBI </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black">• VLBI technologies and data processing</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black">We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.</span></p>
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