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Self-calibration of M.O.S.T. data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. D. Gray
A. D. Gray*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W., 2006, AUSTRALIA

Abstract

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The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST), located near Canberra, Australia, is an east-west earth-rotation synthesis array which, unlike conventional synthesis arrays, generates multiple real-time fan-beams and forms images by the back-projection of the recorded intensities rather than by Fourier inversion of visibilities. The images produced in this fashion are often marred by the presence of radial artefacts emanating from strong sources due to residual calibration errors. An algorithm devised to self-calibrate these errors is discussed.

Type
Imaging
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 131: Radio Interferometry: Theory, Techniques, and Applications , 1991 , pp. 202 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991

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