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2004MNRAS.349.1365S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 349, 1365-1380 (2004/April-3)
Contaminants in ATCA baselines with shadowing: a case study of cross-talk in short-spacing interferometers.
SUBRAHMANYAN R. and DESHPANDE A.A.
Abstract (from CDS):
As a case study, we have examined the nature of the spurious correlations between the Cassegrain-type paraboloidal reflectors that are elements of the Australia Telescope Compact Array. In configurations with geometric shadowing, the cross-talk here appears as an additive component. Analysis of the characteristics of this cross-talk leads us to believe that when these reflector antennas are in a shadowed configuration, the receivers in the antenna pair pick up correlated emission from opposite sides of the main reflector surface of the front antenna. The slots between the panels that make up the main reflector surface provide the pathway for the coupling across the reflector surface. This mode of cross-talk may be avoided by constructing the main reflectors of short-spacing interferometers as continuous conducting surfaces.
Abstract Copyright: 2004 RAS
Journal keyword(s): atmospheric effects - instrumentation: interferometers - techniques: interferometric - telescopes - cosmic microwave background - cosmology: observations
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