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Error Recognition - S.T. Myers Page 11
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  6 Short and Long Timescale Errors  
 
 
  • Single bad visibility out of N diluted by factor 1/N

  • Obviously single integs more important for snapshots!

  • uv tracks E-W at transit -> linear corrugations

  • Long duration errors (ring) -> Bessel function ripples

 
 
  7 Additive, Multiplicative or Convolution?  
 
 
  • Additive errors add to true visiblity

  • RFI, crosstalk, receiver noise, atmospheric emission are additive

  • Multiplicative errors muliply the true visibility

  • Atmospheric absorption and path delays, receiver gain fluctuations are multiplicative

  • Multiplicative errors in the Image Plane will correspond to a convolution in the Fourier domain

  • Optics distortions (eg. primary beam!), pointing errors, shadowing, smearing are convolutions

 
 
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