LOFAR calibration challenges

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 817-825

  Noordam, Jan E ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aperture synthesis; Calibration, ionosphere; LOFAR; Low frequency; Radio astronomy; SKA

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTERFEROMETERS; IONOSPHERE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

APERTURE SYNTHESIS; LOWFREQUENCY ARRAY (LOFAR); SKA;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444223843     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.544262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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