SERPent: Automated reduction and RFI-mitigation software for e-MERLIN

Astronomy and Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-66

  Peck, Luke W ^a   Fenech, Danielle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: interferometers; Methods: data analysis and observational; Techniques: interferometric; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; PIPELINES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; INSTRUMENTATION: INTERFEROMETERS; LOVELL TELESCOPE; METHODS:DATA ANALYSIS; PHASE CALIBRATORS; TECHNIQUES: INTERFEROMETRIC;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84884940069     PISSN: 22131337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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