PARI REACHES FOR THE STARS WITH ITS EMC INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
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DIRV
A project is underway to develop a two-element interferometer for dedicated monitoring of compact radio sources.
The Dedicated Interferometer for Rapid Variability (DIRV), a two-element interferometer, is being devleoped for dedicated monitoring of compact radio sources. The goal is long-term, fully-sampled monitoring of a large sample of extragalactic sources to study interstellar scintillation and search for extreme scattering events. The interferometer makes use of the two 26-meter antennae with an east-west separation of about 400 meters at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI), in partnership with the Pisgah Astronomical Research and Science Education Center (PARSEC), an interinstitutional center of the University of North Carolina system.
Dr. Brian Dennison (UNC-Asheville) is the Principal Investigator, and I, along with Dr. David Moffett (Furman University), and Dr. Wayne Christiansen (UNC-Chapel Hill) are Co-investigators. My role is working with the team to develop the observing system, which includes the pointing model, and observing algorithm.