We present the results of image simulations of 43.1 GHz SiO maser emission toward a Mira variable using the KVN (Korean VLBI Network) and other facilities which can make joint VLBI experiments with the KVN. To test the imaging capability of the KVN we used the image of SiO masers in the simulation obtained by the VLBA, which is considered to be the optimum VLBI facility at present to study SiO masers toward evolved stars. The simulated images of SiO maser emission confirm that coordinate VLBI expriments of KVN with several more stations in Japan or in the neighborhood of Korean Peninsula are necessary to exert the functional benefit of the KVN as the first mm VLBI facility which can perform simultaneous observations at four different frequency bands.

ABSTRACT
1. 서론
2. 이미지 모의실험
    2.1 모의실험 개요
    2.2 TX Cam에서 관측된 SiO 메이저의 VLBI 모의실험
3. 결과분석
    3.1 KVN 및 KVN과 대덕전파망원경의 관측
    3.2 KVN과 국제공동관측
    3.3 E-KVN (Expanded KVN)
4. 결론
참고문헌

• 이지윤(한국천문연구원) | JIYUNE YI (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
• 정태현(한국천문연구원, 과학기술연합대학원대학교) | TAE-HYUN JUNG (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, University of Science Institute)