LOFAR calibration and wide-field imaging

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-32

  Tasse, Cyril ^a   van Diepen, Ger ^b   van der Tol, Sebastiaan ^c   van Weeren, Reinout J ^c   van Zwieten, Joris E ^c   Batejat, Fabien ^d   Bhatnagar, Sanjay ^e   van Bemmel, Ilse ^b   Bîrzan, Laura ^c   Bonafede, Annalisa ^f   Conway, John ^d   Ferrari, Chiara ^g   De Gasperin, Francesco ^h   Golap, Kumar ^e   Heald, George ^b   Jackson, Neal ⁱ   Macario, Giulia ^g   McKean, John ^b   Mohan, Niruj ^c   Orru, Emanuela ^j   Pizzo, Roberto ^b   Rafferty, David ^c   Rau, Urvashi ^e   Röttgering, Huub ^c   Shulevski, Aleksandar ^j   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f INAF ISTITUTO DI RADIOASTRONOMIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Calibration; Imaging; Interferometry; LOFAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855551336     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2011.10.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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