“RadioAstron”-A telescope with a size of 300 000 km: Main parameters and first observational results

Astronomy Reports - 2013
N. S. Kardashëv1, В. В. Хартов2, В. В. Абрамов3, V. Yu. Avdeev1, A. V. Alakoz1, Yu. A. Aleksandrov1, S. Ananthakrishnan4, V. V. Andreyanov1, A. S. Andrianov1, N. M. Antonov1, M. I. Artyukhov2, М. В. Архипов1, Willem A. Baan5, N. G. Babakin1, V. Babyshkin2, N. Bartel6, K. G. Belousov1, А. А. Belyaev7, J. J. Berulis1, B. F. Burke8, A. V. Biryukov1, A. E. Bubnov9, M. S. Burgin1, G. Busca10, A. A. Bykadorov11, V. S. Bychkova1, V. I. Vasil’kov1, K. J. Wellington12, I. S. Vinogradov1, R. D. Wietfeldt13, P. A. Voitsik1, A. S. Gvamichava1, I. A. Girin1, L. I. Gurvits14, Р. Д. Дагкесаманский1, Larry R. D'Addario13, G. Giovannini15, D. L. Jauncey12, P. E. Dewdney16, A. A. D'Yakov17, V. E. Zharov18, V. I. Zhuravlev1, G. S. Zaslavskii19, M. V. Zakhvatkin19, A. N. Zinov’ev1, Yu. Ilinen20, А. В. Ипатов17, B. Z. Kanevskiĭ1, I. A. Knorin1, J. L. Casse21, K. I. Kellermann22, Yu. A. Kovalev1, Y. Y. Kovalev1, A. V. Kovalenko1, Bella Kogan23, R. V. Komaev2, A. A. Konovalenko24, G. D. Kopelyanskii1, Yu. A. Korneev1, В. И. Костенко1, A. N. Kotik1, B. B. Kreisman1, A. Yu. Kukushkin9, V. F. Kulishenko24, D.N. Cooper12, A. M. Kutkin1, W. H. Cannon6, М. Г. Ларионов1, M. M. Lisakov1, Л. Н. Литвиненко24, С. Ф. Лихачев1, L. N. Likhacheva1, A. P. Lobanov25, С. В. Логвиненко1, G. I. Langston26, K. G. McCracken12, S. Yu. Medvedev7, M. V. Melekhin2, A. Menderov2, D. W. Murphy13, T. A. Mizyakina1, Yu. V. Mozgovoi2, N. Ya. Nikolaev1, B. Novikov9, И. Д. Новиков1, V. V. Oreshko1, Yuri Pavlenko7, I. N. Pashchenko1, Yu. N. Ponomarev1, M. V. Popov1, A. Pravin-Kumar4, R. A. Preston13, V. N. Pyshnov1, I. A. Rakhimov17, V. M. Rozhkov27, J. D. Romney28, Paula Lúcia Ferrucio da Rocha10, В. А. Рудаков1, Antti V. Räisänen29, S. V. Sazankov1, B. A. Sakharov7, S. Semenov2, V. A. Serebrennikov2, R. T. Schilizzi30, D. P. Skulachev9, V. I. Slysh1, A. I. Smirnov1, J. G. Smith13, V. A. Soglasnov1, K. V. Sokolovskii18, L.H. Sondaar5, V. A. Stepanyants19, M. S. Turygin3, S. Yu. Turygin3, А. Г. Тучин19, S. Urpo29, S. D. Fedorchuk1, A. M. Finkel'Shteǐn17, Edward B. Fomalont22, I. Feješ31, A. N. Fomina32, Yu. B. Khapin9, G. S. Tsarevskii1, J. A. Zensus25, А. А. Чуприков1, M. V. Shatskaya1, N. Ya. Shapirovskaya1, A. I. Sheikhet2, A. E. Shirshakov2, Andreas S. Schmidt25, L. A. Shnyreva1, V. V. Shpilevskii17, R. D. Ekers12, V. E. Yakimov1
1Astro Space Center, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
2Lavochkin Scientific and Production Association, Khimki, Moscow region, Russia
3Institute of Radio Technology and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
4Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Tal-Junnar, Pune, Maharashtra, India
5Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
6Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Canada
7“Vremya-Ch” Joint Stock Company, ul. Osharskaya 67, Nizhni Novgorod, 603105, Russia
8Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
9Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
10Observatoire de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland
11“Salut-27” Private Joint Stock Company, Research and Production Enterprise, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
12Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO Division of Radio Physics, Sydney, Australia
13NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA
14Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
15INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna, Via Gobetti 101, I-40129, Bologna, Italy
16SKA Program Development Office, University ofManchester, Manchester, UK
17Institute of Applied Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
18Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
19Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
20Ilinen Company, Helsinki, Finland
21Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
22National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, USA
23Moscow Energy Institute, Moscow, Russia
24Radio Astronomy Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Khar’kov, Ukraine
25Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
26National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, USA
27Raketno-Kosmicheskie Sistemy, Moscow, Russia
28National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, USA
29Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland
30University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester, UK
31FÖMI Satellite Geodetic Obsevatory, Renc, Hungary
32Ekologiya i Radiosvyaz, Private Joint Stock Company, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia

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