First results from the Very Small Array - I. Observational methods

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 341, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1057-1065

  Watson, Robert A ^a,c   Carreira, Pedro ^a   Cleary, Kieran ^a   Davies, Rod D ^a   Davis, Richard J ^a   Dickinson, Clive ^a   Grainge, Keith ^b   Gutiérrez, Carlos M ^c   Hobson, Michael P ^b   Jones, Michael E ^b   Kneissl, Rüdiger ^b   Lasenby, Anthony ^b   Maisinger, Klaus ^b   Pooley, Guy G ^b   Rebolo, Rafael ^c   Rubiño Martin, José Alberto ^c,d   Rusholme, Ben ^b,e   Saunders, Richard D E ^b   Savage, Richard ^b   Scott, Paul F ^b   Slosar, Anže ^b   Molina, Pedro J Sosa ^c   Taylor, Angela C ^b   Titterington, David ^b   Waldram, Elizabeth ^b   Wilkinson, Althea ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: observations; Instrumentation: interferometers

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; INTERFEROMETERS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ANGULAR SCALE; CALIBRATION ACCURACY; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; FLUX DENSITIES; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTATION: INTERFEROMETERS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SYSTEMATIC EFFECTS; THERMAL NOISE LEVELS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 0141502593     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06338.x     Document Type: Article

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