Using NICT and the net, it synthesizes the radio telescope of the entire world
and it participates in the event which observes astronomically

Using Internet, 1 in radio telescopes of the entire world synthesis
- 2009 worldwide astronomical year commemoration event -


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research mechanism (you call below “NICT”. Chief director: Kazuo
Miyahara) the European VLBI combined research mechanism (JIVE: Joint Institute
for VLBI in Europe), the Australian federal scientific industrial research
mechanism (ATNF: Australia Telescope National Facility), it cooperates with the
Chinese scientific institute, and the like uses high-speed network and
synthesizes the radio telescope of terrestrial scale and it participates in the
event which does radio wave astronomical observation. This, utilizing
high-speed network technology, is something of world's largest scale as the
experiment which connects the radio telescope of the entire world, 2009
worldwide astronomical year is commemorated and it is the schedule where the
demonstration is done January 15th (the wood) in the opening ceremony which is
held in Paris.

　NICT utilizes high-speed network technology, connects the plural radio
telescopes of remote place and the technology which forms the enormous
hypothetical radio telescope (e−VLB (I*1)) is advancing development. This
technology radio source of outer space makes that quite it observes with high
resolution possible, is utilized even in field such as other than radio
astronomy and space engineering and the geodetics which measures the movement
of the continent.

　2009 January 15th (the wood) - 16 days (the gold), 2009 worldwide
astronomical year (the *2) as a commemoration event, large-scale e−VLBI
observation is planned. This with the calling JIVE which is the European VLBI
institution, European each country (England, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Finland,
Holland and Poland) not only the radio telescope, also the American, Australia,
Chile, China and Japan radio telescope participating, is something which does
international joint observation, international e−VLBI observation of
maximum scale in history (the *3) with it becomes. It is the schedule where,
the NICT Kashima 34m dish antenna participates from Japan, the disk record type
VLBI observation system which NICT developed (K5) (the *4) using, is
transmitted by Holland at data rate of high speed the data which it observed
with the antenna that way, high-speed test bed network JGN2plus (the *5)
through, is processed to real time.

　The disk record type VLBI observation system which NICT was developed
(K5), also the observation system of the foreign country had high
compatibility, the latest joint observation actualized. As for circumstances of
this observation, it is the schedule which is introduced January 15th (the
wood) in the opening ceremony of 2009 worldwide astronomical year commemoration
which is held in Paris.