e-MERLIN is an array of seven radio telescopes spanning 217 km (135 miles) across Great Britain connected by a superfast optical fibre network to its headquarters at Jodrell Bank Observatory. It has a unique position in the world with an angular resolution comparable to that of the Hubble Space Telescope and carrying out centimetre wavelength radio astronomy with micro-Jansky sensitivities. Its flexible wide-band correlator enables e-MERLIN to become the core of the EVN (European Very Long Baseline Interferometer Network) providing those valuable shortest baselines to global VLBI scientists. The array is also flexible enough to be used for sensitive pulsar observations in very-high time-resolution modes.
e-MERLIN announces regular observing cycles (currently twice per year), inviting the astronomical community to propose new experiments. Typical observations, using the Direct Correlation Mode, yield micro-Jansky sensitivities in a single observing track with excellent aperture synthesis coverage thanks to 512 MHz of bandwidth and up to 50 milli-arcseconds of angular resolution at C-band. Full support is available throughout the proposing, observing and data reduction processes from specialist Support Scientists. The bespoke CASA data reduction pipeline tool can automatically process data faster than real-time allowing rapid results.
Website: https:/www.e-merlin.ac.uk/