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The VSOP 2 mission: Imaging capabilities

R. Dodson, H. Hirabayashi, Y. Murata, P. G. Edwards, K. Wiik, D. Murphy, S. Kameno

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0403433

Abstract

Given the scientific goals of VSOP-2, including the possibility of observations of the shadows of black holes, we have investigated the fidelity of the recovered images given a typical uv-coverage. We find that we can achieve a dynamic range of better than 1000:1.

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