Calibration, sensitivity and RFI mitigation requirements for LOFAR

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn V, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Boonstra, A J ^a   Wijnholds, S J ^a   Van Der Tol, S ^b   Jeffs, B ^b,c  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CALIBRATION; COSMIC RAYS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIO INTERFERENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES;

INITIAL PHASED ARRAY TEST STATION; INTERFERENCE MITIGATION; LOW FREQUENCY ARRAY; SQUARE KILOMETER ARRAY;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 33646780919     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1416442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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