1ST PULSAR VLBI EXPERIMENT IN JAPAN BETWEEN KASHIMA AND USUDA

We carried out very long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiments on the pulsar PSR 0329+54 in August and November of 1992 by using the Ka shima 26 m and the Usuda 64 m antennas. A fringe of a pulsar was detec ted for the first time in Japan by using newly developed correlation s oftware and the K3 VLBI correlator, which were developed by the Commun ications Research Laboratory (CRL). To check the gating ability of the correlator, the correlation amplitude was measured for various gating times, from which we derived the gating time that produces the highes t signal-to-noise ratio.