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Improved Efficiency Quantum-Enhanced Very Long Baseline Interferometry Telescopes
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Description
Capability Need/Knowledge Gap: Improved imaging of dim astrophysics phenomena, particularly for habitable Earth-like exoplanets, and higher precision, particularly for Mars mapping and deep-space navigation. Related to Civil Space Shortfalls 1598 and 1604, as well as 1626 Objectives: Improve imaging, including reducing the number of samples required to achieve given resolution, through advancing Quantum-Enhanced Very Long Baseline Interferometry (QE-VLBI)
Benefits
Deliverables: 1) Develop approaches to approximate QFTs; 2) Perform detailed resource analysis of these approaches, and precision estimates; 3) Refine the most promising approaches; and 4) Submit results for publication and internal reports
Details
| Technology area | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing > Ground Computing > Quantum Computer |
| Program | Agency Independent Research and Development (A-IRAD) |
| Lead organization | Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA |
| Start date | 2025-11-01 |
| End date | 2026-09-30 |
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