The submillimeter array polarimeter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Marrone, Daniel P ^a,b   Rao, Ramprasad ^c  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Polarization; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; CORUNDUM; INSTRUMENTS; OXIDE MINERALS; POLARIMETERS; QUARTZ; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; WALSH TRANSFORMS;

ALIGNMENT ERRORS; ANTI-REFLECTION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; INTERFEROMETRY; NARROW BANDS; POINT SOURCES; POLARIZATION CONVERTERS; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; QUARTER-WAVE PLATES; RIGHT-CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; SINGLE-POLARIZATION; SUBMILLIMETER; WALSH FUNCTIONS; WAVE PLATES;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 52649122290     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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