Maximum-likelihood astrometric geometry calibration of interferometric telescopes: Application to the Very Small Array

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 345, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 800-808

  Maisinger, Klaus ^a   Hobson, M P ^a   Saunders, Richard D E ^a   Grainge, Keith J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Instrumentation: interferometers; Methods: observational; Techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELESCOPES;

ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; ASTROMETRY; GEOMETRY CALIBRATION; INSTRUMENTATION: INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRICS; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; METHODS:OBSERVATIONAL; TECHNIQUE: INTERFEROMETRIC; TELESCOPE APPLICATIONS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0242594686     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06995.x     Document Type: Article

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