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Reduction of Interference in Observations with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

T.A. Th. Spoelstra
T.A. Th. Spoelstra*
Affiliation:
Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy, P. O. Box 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

Abstract

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Radio astronomical observations are increasingly affected by man-made interference of various kinds. Sophisticated software tools have to be developed to cope with interference effects in the data. A calibration procedure is described in which the effects of different categories of errors are separated. If this separation can be performed for interference effects.

Interference effects remaining in the data are erroneously interpreted as source structure by self-calibration techniques. This is due to the fact that self-calibration alone does not properly take into account this separation. Some results for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope are given.

Type
Radio Frequency Interference
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 112: Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris , 1991 , pp. 249 - 257
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991

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