Implementation of a direct-imaging and FX correlator for the BEST-2 array

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 439, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 3180-3188

  Foster, G ^a,b   Hickish, J ^a   Magro, A ^c   Price, D ^a,d   Zarb Adami, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

General; Instrumentation; Interferometers instrumentation; Interferometric radio continuum; Miscellaneous techniques

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

BEAM FORMERS; DIRECT IMAGING; FOURIER; GENERAL; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETER - INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRIC - RADIO CONTINUUM; INTERFEROMETRICS; MISCELLANEOUS - TECHNIQUE; RADIO CONTINUUM;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896465857     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu188     Document Type: Article

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