Basic simulation

Basic simulation#

Antenna positions, baselines and uv-sampling for an ARGOS pathfinder-like array:#

Antenna positions The aperture synthesis uv-sampling has ben simulated for the following parameters:

Source tracking parameters

  • Array latitude: 35.0 deg

  • Source declination: 90.0 deg

  • Source right ascension: [-.5, .5] hours

  • $\Delta t$ = 900.0 segs (15 minutes)

  • Number of time samples: 4

Multiband tracking parameters

  • Centre frequency: 2 GHz

  • Bandwidth: 1 GHz

  • Number of channels: 11

Observation simulation for an ARGOS pathfinder-like array#

Observation simulation

Image reconstruction using the Hogbom’s Clean algorithm#

Image reconstruction

Clean Parameters

  • Max number of iterations: 100

  • Gain: 0.2

  • Threshold: 1e-3

  • Clean beam size (pixels): 10

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