Self-calibration of radio astronomical arrays with non-diagonal noise covariance matrix

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1146-1150

  Wijnholds, Stefan J ^a   Van Der Veen, Alle Jan ^b  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING LEAST SQUARES; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; COMMUNITY IS; LOW FREQUENCY ARRAYS; NOISE COUPLING; NOISE COVARIANCE MATRIX; NUISANCE PARAMETER; RADIO ASTRONOMICAL ARRAYS; SELF CALIBRATION; SPATIAL SCALE;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELESCOPES;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84863754894     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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