VLBI in Malaysia: Current Status and Future Plans
J.C. Algaba* and Z.Z. Abidin
Pre-published on:
March 09, 2023
Published on:
August 22, 2023
Abstract
The community of astronomers is growing Malaysia and organizing their first steps towards a solid Malaysian Astronomical Society. The area of radioastronomy is growing on par, and so it is in particular the VLBI field. Here we present the Malaysian current VLBI status and future plans. Our local community is raising VLBI experts both from the scientific as well as from the technical and engineering points of view. Malaysian VLBI researchers are active in fields involving, but not limited to, AGN physics, masers, solar astronomy, clusters of galaxies, or dark matter, among others. Scientific collaboration and partnership with other (south) east asian regions and the East Asian Observatory (EAO) has also started. Malaysia has moved forward in the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) and Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM) for the acquisition and operation of a VGOS radio telescope which will be expected to start its construction in the location of Jelebu in the near future. Malaysia is moving towards its readiness by finalizing VLBI tests with the UPSI pathfinder antenna.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.428.0049
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