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Primary Beam Resolution
= / D
Adjacent Beams cross at
H = D /
H = D / = D2
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Above H wavefront fluctuations induced
are common to antennas
Interferometer "images" objects further than far-field distance
H
Structures lower than H are in
"near field" and not common to antennas
Near field distortions of wavefront may be "self-calibratable" if
they separate into antenna-based gain errors
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