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Issue A&A
Volume 392, Number 3, September IV 2002
Page(s) 1149 - 1152
Section Instruments, observational techniques and data processing
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020971



A&A 392, 1149-1152 (2002)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020971

Hexagonal arrays for radio interferometers

L. G. Sodin1 and L. E. Kopilovich2

1  Institute of Radio Astronomy, Kharkov 61002, Ukraine
    e-mail: sod@ira.kharkov.ua
2  Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, Kharkov 61085, Ukraine
    e-mail: kopil@ire.kharkov.ua

(Received 11 April 2002 / Accepted 4 June 2002)

Abstract
A method for arranging the interferometer elements in nodes of a regular hexagonal coordinate net that provides a nonredundant coverage of a spatial-frequency domain of hexagonal shape is considered. The procedure of synthesizing such arrays based on the use of cyclic difference sets is described. The basic characteristics of the synthesized beam (the beamwidth and sidelobe level) are investigated.


Key words: instrumentation: interferometers

Offprint request: L. Sodin, sod@ira.kharkov.ua

SIMBAD Objects in preparation



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