The MeqTrees software system and its use for third-generation calibration of radio interferometers

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 524, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Noordam, J E ^a   Smirnov, O M ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

methods: data analysis; methods: numerical; techniques: interferometric; techniques: polarimetric

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SUBSETS; ASTRONOMICAL SOFTWARE; DATA MODELS; DYNAMIC RANGE; GIANT RADIO TELESCOPE; HAMAKER; INTERMEDIATE RESULTS; MATHEMATICAL APPARATUS; MEASUREMENT EQUATIONS; METHODS: NUMERICALS; METHODS:DATA ANALYSIS; NEW INSTRUMENT; NUMERICAL MODELS; RADIO INTERFEROMETERS; SIMULATION TOOL; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TECHNIQUES: INTERFEROMETRIC; TECHNIQUES: POLARIMETRIC; THIRD GENERATION;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES; VISUALIZATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 78649369163     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015013     Document Type: Article

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