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Caption: Figure 9.
Recording rate of EHT observations over time. As of 2018, EHT stations record at 64 Gbps, equivalent to a doubling of recorded bandwidth every two years for over a decade (blue curve). The high bandwidth, a result of linking EHT instrumentation to industry trends and commodity electronics, is a crucial component of the EHT’s sensitivity, enabling detections on long baselines, providing resilience of the network against poor weather and low-elevation targets, and allowing detections from all stations to ALMA within short atmospheric coherence times (see Section 2.2).
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