Advances in calibration and imaging techniques in radio interferometry

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1472-1481

  Rau, Urvashi ^a,b,c   Bhatnagar, Sanjay ^b   Voronkov, Maxim A ^c   Cornwell, Tim J ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Calibration; Computing; Imaging; Radio interferometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; RADIO INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 67651095662     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2014853     Document Type: Article

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