The Goal of DYNAMO-VLBA is to determine the dynamical masses for an unprecedent number of YSOs in different star forming regions. DYNAMO-VLBA will provide an outstanding sample of YSOs with measured dynamical masses to test evolutionary models of premain-sequence stars. In general, it will also show that radio-astrometry is a key technique that will keep contributing to the understanding of YSOs and the early stages of star formation even in the Gaia era.
Read MoreThe goal of the project M2FINDERS awarded by the ERC to Anton Zensus, is to develop technical and radio astronomical methods to map magnetic fields at distances smaller than 1000 gravitational radii to the SMBH. To achieve this ambitious goal the project will bring together experts from three main areas of VLBI research: 1) Polarisation VLBI imaging; 2) VLBI interferometry techniques; 3) Theoretical expectations of the magnetic field near the event horizon.
Read MoreThe Event Horizon Telescope is an international collaboration capturing images of black holes using a virtual Earth-sized telescope. Amongst its world recognized results I highlight the images of M87* and Sgr A*.
Read MoreTo obtain a highly reliable census of the incidence of nonthermal emission, and to then use this information for a proper motion census of the inner ONC, we have utilized the upgrade of the NRAO Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). It has become possible to correlate all ~600 radio sources that we identified in our VLA data, in a near-identical primary beam. (P.I. Jan Forbrich)
Read MoreThe Global view on Star formation in the Milky Way (GLOSTAR) survey uses the wideband (4-8 GHz) C-band receivers of the VLA and the Effelsberg 100-m telescope to conduct an unbiased survey to characterize star-forming regions in the Milky Way. This survey of the Galactic mid-plane detects tell-tale tracers of early phases of high-mass star formation: compact, ultra- and hyper-compact HII regions. (P.I. Karl M. Menten)
Read MoreThe Gould's Belt Distances Survey was a large project aimed at measuring the distance to several tens of young stars in the most prominent star-forming regions within about 500 pc of the Sun (Ophiuchus, Taurus, Perseus, Serpens, and Orion). The distances are obtained from direct trigonometric parallax measurements based on multi-epoch VLBA observations collected over periods of one-and-a-half to three years. (P.I. Laurent Loinard)
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