The noncoplanar baselines effect in radio interferometry: The W-Projection algorithm

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 647-657

  Cornwell, Tim J ^a   Golap, Kumar ^b   Bhatnagar, Sanjay ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Computation time; Diffraction; Fourier transforms; Radio interferometry

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIFFRACTION; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

ARRAY ANTENNAS; BASE-LINES; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTING TIMES; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; FRESNEL DIFFRACTIONS; LONGER WAVELENGTHS; NEW ALGORITHMS; NEW GENERATIONS; NONCOPLANAR; NOVEL INTERPRETATIONS; PROJECTION ALGORITHMS; RADIO INTERFEROMETRY; SUPERIOR PERFORMANCES; TIGHTLY COUPLED;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 57949110646     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2005290     Document Type: Article

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