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Reduction of the Baseline Ripple on Spectra Recorded with the Parkes Radio Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. Padman*
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney

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One of the factors determining system sensitivity in radio astronomy measurements of microwave emission and absorption spectra is the flatness of the spectrometer response in the absence of any spectral features. Ripple appears as a quasi-sinusoidal variation of this baseline and occurs whenever two or more components of the same signal reach the receiver by different paths and interfere.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1977

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