Summary of the ALMA strawperson configurations.
|
Minimum |
Maximum |
Time for |
Natural |
|
Baseline |
Baseline |
FOC = 0.4 |
Beam at 345 GHz |
|
[m] |
[m] |
[hours] |
[arcs] |
A |
85 |
3000 |
10 |
0.050 |
B |
35 |
1430 |
4 |
0.101 |
C |
15 |
680 |
1.5 |
0.22 |
D |
15 |
325 |
0.5 |
0.47 |
E |
15 |
150 |
0.02 |
0.97 |
![]() | Fraction of the uv cells sampled by each configuration with earth rotation. A reasonable target for good imaging is thought to be about 40%. |