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A Harmonic Analysis Solution to the Parkes Spectrometer Baseline Ripple

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D. R. Williams*
Affiliation:
Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Extract

The arrangement whereby the front end of a radio astronomical receiver is located at the focal plane of a paraboloidal telescope causes the incoming waves to be reflected between focal plane and vertex. The result is a sometimes simple, sometimes complex wave pattern on the output of an associated spectrometer and is known as baseline ripple.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1981

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