VLSS redux: Software improvements applied to the very large array low-frequency sky survey

Radio Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Lane, W M ^a   Cotton, W D ^b   Helmboldt, J F ^a   Kassim, N E ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SIZES; DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; HIGHER ORDER; IONOSPHERIC CORRECTION; LOW FREQUENCY; PHASE CONTRIBUTION; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; SURVEY AREA; TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENT; VERY LARGE ARRAYS; ZERNIKE;

ALGORITHMS; SURVEYS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 84863477469     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011RS004941     Document Type: Review

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