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Radioastron (Spectr-R project)—a radio telescope much larger than the earth: Ground segment and key science areas

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The space interferometer Radioastron is working jointly with the largest radio telescopes of the world. Ground tracking stations provide for retrieving the information and determining the orbital parameters for data processing centers. The project is aimed at systematic studies of images of radio emitting regions, their coordinates, and time-dependent variations near super-massive black holes in galactic nuclei, stellarmass black holes, neutron and quark stars, regions of star and planet formation in our and other galaxies, the structure of interplanetary and interstellar plasma, and the Earth’s gravitational field.

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  1. Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    Yu. A. Alexandrov, V. V. Andreyanov, N. G. Babakin, K. G. Belousov, A. V. Biryukov, A. E. Bubnov, V. I. Vasil’kov, I. S. Vinogradov, A. S. Gvamichava, A. N. Zinoviev, B. Z. Kanevskiy, N. S. Kardashev, Yu. A. Kovalev, Yu. Yu. Kovalev, A. V. Kovalenko, Yu. A. Korneev, V. I. Kostenko, B. B. Kreisman, A. Yu. Kukushkin, M. G. Larionov, S. F. Likhachev, L. N. Likhacheva, T. A. Mizyakina, N. Ya. Nikolaev, B. S. Novikov, I. D. Novikov, Yu. N. Ponomarev, M. V. Popov, V. N. Pyshnov, A. I. Smirnov, S. D. Fedorchuk, M. V. Shatskaya & V. E. Yakimov

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    V. E. Babyshkin, R. V. Komaev, M. V. Melekhin, V. A. Serebrennikov, A. I. Sheikhet & A. E. Shirshakov

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    A. A. Belyaev, S. Yu. Medvedev, Yu. K. Pavlenko & B. A. Sakharov

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  5. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Miusskaya pl. 4, Moscow, 125047, Russia

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Original Russian Text © Yu.A. Alexandrov, V.V. Andreyanov, N.G. Babakin, et al., 2011, published in Vestnik FGUP NPO imeni S.A. Lavochkina, 2011, No. 3, pp. 19–29.

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Alexandrov, Y.A., Andreyanov, V.V., Babakin, N.G. et al. Radioastron (Spectr-R project)—a radio telescope much larger than the earth: Ground segment and key science areas. Sol Syst Res 46, 466–475 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094612070039

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