Self-calibration for the LOFAR radio astronomical array

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4497-4510

  van der Tol, Sebastian ^a   Jeffs, Brian D ^b   van der Veen, Alle Jan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Array calibration; Cram r Rao bound (CRB); Radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; NETHERLANDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ARRAY CALIBRATION; LOW-FREQUENCY RADIO ASTRONOMICAL ARRAY; SELF-CALIBRATION;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 34548214236     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.896243     Document Type: Article

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