• 천문학회지
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.207-213
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• 2022

The Seoul Radio Astronomy Observatory (SRAO) operates a 6.1-meter radio telescope on the Gwanak campus of Seoul National University. We present the efforts to reform SRAO to a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) station, motivated by recent achievements by millimeter interferometer networks such as Event Horizon Telescope, East Asia VLBI Network, and Korean VLBI Network (KVN). For this goal, we installed a receiver that had been used in the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy and a digital backend, including an H-maser clock. The existing hardware and software were also revised, which had been dedicated only to single-dish operations. After several years of preparations and test observations in 1 and 3-millimeter bands, a fringe was successfully detected toward 3C 84 in 86 GHz in June 2022 for a baseline between SRAO and KVN Ulsan station separated by 300 km. Thanks to the dual frequency operation of the receiver, the VLBI observations will soon be extended to the 1 mm band and verify the frequency phase referencing technique between 1 and 3-millimeter bands.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.125-132
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• 2018

KVN(Korean VLBI Network)에서는 VLBI(Very Long Baseline Interferometry) 관측을 위해 최대 32Gbps 데이터 기록을 위한 기록기로 MIT Haystack 천문대의 Mark6 시스템을 도입하였다. Mark6 기록기는 시스템 2대와 HDD가 총 64개 장착된 경우 최대 32Gbps로 데이터를 기록할 수 있다. 하지만 Mark6의 특징인 독자적인 기록방식을 사용하고 있기 때문에 대용량의 데이터를 가상 파일 시스템을 도입하거나 일반적인 RAID 방식을 사용하고 있는데, 최고 기록속도나 파일 시스템에서 파일을 읽어서 전송할 때 데이터 손실이 발생하는 문제가 있다. JIVE에서 개발한 소프트웨어 기록기인 Flexbuff 시스템은 RAID 구성과 네트워크 업그레이드를 통하여 데이터 기록기로서 동작할 수 있도록 구성할 수 있다. 특히 Mark6 시스템에 설치할 경우 Mark6의 리소스를 잘 활용하여 기존의 Mark6와 비교하여 데이터 손실이 적으면서 안정적으로 최대 32Gbps 속도로 VLBI 관측 데이터를 기록할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 Mark6 시스템에 jive5ab 소프트웨어를 설치하여 Mark6-Flexbuff로 동작할 수 있음을 제안하고, 데이터 기록시험을 통하여 VLBI 관측 운영에 효율적으로 활용할 수 있음을 시험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• 천문학회지
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.195-199
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• 2014

We present a GUI-based interactive Python program, VIMAP, which generates radio spectral index maps of active galactic nuclei (AGN) from Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) maps obtained at different frequencies. VIMAP is a handy tool for the spectral analysis of synchrotron emission from AGN jets, specifically of spectral index distributions, turn-over frequencies, and core-shifts. In general, the required accurate image alignment is difficult to achieve because of a loss of absolute spatial coordinate information during VLBI data reduction (self-calibration) and/or intrinsic variations of source structure as function of frequency. These issues are overcome by VIMAP which in turn is based on the two-dimensional cross-correlation algorithm of Croke & Gabuzda (2008). In this paper, we briefly review the problem of aligning VLBI AGN maps, describe the workflow of VIMAP, and present an analysis of archival VLBI maps of the active nucleus 3C 120.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.1215-1218
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• 2013

86 GHz 대역 VLBI(Very Long Baseline Interferometry) 이중원형 편파 관측에 사용되는 90도 위상천이기를 Corrugated 정사각형 도파관 구조를 이용하여 개발하였다. 이 90도 위상천이기는 정사각형 도파관 내부에 Corrugation 구조를 만들어 정사각형 도파관을 통과한 수직, 수평 편파의 위상차이가 85~115 GHz 대역에서 $90{\pm}3.3$도 이내가 되도록 설계하였고, 제작 후 측정 결과는 위 주파수 대역에서 반사 손실과 삽입 손실이 각각 17 dB, 0.25 dB 이하이고 Axial ratio는 0.6 dB 이하이다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.35.4-35.4
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• 2019

We have conducted a 22 GHz very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) survey of 281 local (z < 0.05) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) 70-month ultra hard X-ray (14-195 keV) catalog. The main goal is to investigate the relation between the strengths of black hole accretion and the parsec-scale nuclear jet, which is expected to tightly correlate but has not been observationally confirmed yet. The BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) provides the least biased AGN sample against obscuration including both Seyfert types, hence it makes an ideal parent sample for studying the nuclear jet properties of an overall AGN population. Using the Korean VLBI Network (KVN), the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA), and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), we observed 281 objects with a 22 GHz flux > 30 mJy, detecting 11 targets (~4% of VLBI detection rate). This implies that the fraction of X-ray AGNs which are currently ejecting a strong nuclear jet is very small. Although our 11 sources span a wide range of pc-scale morphological types, from compact to complex, they lie on a tight linear relation between accretion luminosity and nuclear jet luminosity. Our finding may indicate that the power of nuclear jet is directly responsible for the amount of black hole accretion. We also have probed the fundamental plane of black hole activity in VLBI scale (e.g., few milli-arcsecond). The results from our high-frequency VLBI radio study support that the change of jet luminosity and size follows what is predicted by the AGN evolution scenario based on the Eddington ratio (ƛ$_{Edd}$) - column density ($N_H$) plane, proposed by a previous study.

• 천문학논총
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2005

e-VLBI was invented to enhance the efficiency of VLBI (Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry) system by transmitting the data via high speed network. Korean VLBI Network (KVN) has a plan to construct e-VLBI system named e-KVN. High speed backbone network and efficient network model are essential to implement successful e-VLBI system. This paper introduces a network model based on PC cluster technology. The present status of high speed backbone network in Korea is overviewed. We suggest that the network link via Korea Advanced Research Network (KOREN) is one of feasible way for e-KVN. We also describe the principles of e-VLBI and protocol for network transmission such as VSI-E (VLBI Standard Interface - Electronic), RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol) and RTCP (Real-Time Transport Control protocol).

• 천문학회보
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.43.3-44
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• 2015

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) at millimeter wavelengths results in the highest angular resolutions achieved in astronomy and has a unique access to emission regions that are inaccessible with any other approach or at longer wavelengths. The simultaneous multi-frequency VLBI system in the Korean VLBI Network (KVN) is considered one of the most effective systems for compensating the atmospheric phase fluctuations, which is particularly bothersome at mm-VLBI. We have been demonstrating its performance and uniqueness at mm-VLBI observations. As a results, international VLBI partners from Japan, China, Australia and EU have expressed their interest on the KVN style simultaneous multi-frequency system. In this talk, we will report the activities for extending the simultaneous multi-frequency system to global VLBI network and introduce its science driver, measuring AGN core-shift effects.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.325-332
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• 2022

우주 측지 기술 사이의 상대적인 위치 관계를 설명하는 벡터를 결정하기 위해서는 VLBI IVP (Very Long Baseline Interferometry Invariant Point)의 위치를 정밀하게 계산하여야 한다. 이를 위해 일반적으로 VLBI 안테나에 반사 타겟을 부착한 후 필라들로부터 경사 거리, 수평각, 수직각을 관측한다. 그 다음 단계에서는 관측값과 미지수를 연결하는 수학 모델을 이용하여 조정 계산을 수행하게 된다. 따라서 계산된 미지수는 관측값의 정밀도에 영향을 받게 된다. 이때 특히 문제가 되는 것은 반사 타켓이 일반적인 측량 정밀도를 확보하기 어려운 곳에 위치하고 있다는 점이다. 즉, 반사 타겟의 방향을 조정하여 측량 기기에 정확하게 맞출 수 없다는 것이다. 따라서 이러한 부분은 관측 오차에 또 다른 형태로 나타날 것이며 조정 계산 시 오차 모델링에 오류를 발생시킬 수도 있다. 본 연구에서는 조정 계산 후 계산된 잔차의 특성에 대한 분석을 수행하였다. 먼저 관측 타입별 통계 분석을 통해 정규성을 검정하였으며 분산에 차이가 있는 지에 대한 검정도 실시하였다. 관측 타입별로 등분산 검정을 한 경우 분산이 서로 다른 것으로 나타났다. 각 필라에 대해 관측 타입별 등분산 검정을 했을 때 경사 거리와 수평 및 수직각 사이에는 분산에 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 결합 측량으로부터 최적의 결과를 얻기 위해서는 관측 오차에 대해 보다 세분화된 모델링이 필요한 것으로 나타났다.

• 천문학회지
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2016

The calibration of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data has long been a time consuming process. The Korean VLBI Network (KVN) is a simple array consisting of three identical antennas. Because four frequencies are observed simultaneously, phase solutions can be transferred from lower frequencies to higher frequencies in order to improve phase coherence and hence sensitivity at higher frequencies. Due to the homogeneous nature of the array, the KVN is also well suited for automatic calibration. In this paper we describe the automatic calibration of single-polarisation KVN data using the KVN Pipeline and comparing the results against VLBI data that has been manually reduced. We find that the pipelined data using phase transfer produces better results than a manually reduced dataset not using the phase transfer. Additionally we compared the pipeline results with a manually reduced phase-transferred dataset and found the results to be identical.

• 천문학논총
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.115-118
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• 2015

We made phase-referencing Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations of Galactic 22 GHz $H_2O$ maser sources with VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). We measured the parallax distances of G48.61+0.02, G48.99-0.30, G49.19-0.34, ON1, IRAS 20056+3350, IRAS 20143+3634, ON2N, and IRAS 20126+4104, which are located near the tangent point and the Solar circle. The angular velocity of the Galactic rotation at the LSR (i.e. the ratio of the Galactic constants) is derived using the measured parallax distances and proper motions of these sources. The derived value of ${\Omega}_0=28.8{\pm}1.7km\;s^{-1}kpc^{-1}$ is consistent with recent values obtained using VLBI astrometry but 10% larger than the International Astronomical Union (IAU) recommended value of $25.9km\;s^{-1}kpc^{-1}=(220km\;s^{-1})$ / (8.5 kpc).