Organisations

Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe

abbreviation: JIVE
type: public research body
location: Dwingeloo, Drenthe, The Netherlands
WWW: www.jive.nl

description

JIVE is the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe. It was created by the European Consortium for VLBI and is a member of the European VLBI Network (EVN). Its primary task is to operate the EVN MkIV VLBI Data Processor (correlator). JIVE also provides support to astronomers and the Telescope Network. JIVE is hosted by ASTRON (the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy) in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands.