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Can VLBI be done with a single moving telescope, with a very precise clock? I'm thinking of a single frequency point source in space. The received signal will
by femto 6y ago
Can VLBI be done with a single moving telescope, with a very precise clock?
I'm thinking of a single frequency point source in space. The received signal will be periodic. Thus we can move the receiver to a new point in space and still know what the received waveform would be at old position based on its periodicity (if we have an accurate clock). From there we can do interferometry?
A Fourier transform allows the same reasoning to be extended to a multi-frequency source. We can also extend the source spatially, in the same way an arbitrary hologram can be considered to be a collection of "zone plates" due to a set of point sources?
If the above is true, can we use a single Earth based telescope (with clock) to form a telescope with a diameter of the Earth's orbit over the course of a year?
Maybe the flaw is that it assumes that the scene being observed is static over the period of observation? How much change can be tolerated before a scene is no longer static?