Gain calibration methods for radio telescope arrays

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-38

  Boonstra, Albert Jan ^a,b   Van der Veen, Alle Jan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Array calibration; Covariance matching; Factor analysis; Radio astronomy; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

RADIO TELESCOPE ARRAYS;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037232790     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2002.806588     Document Type: Article

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