[alma-config] Imaging simulations for ACA

[Morita, Koh-Ichiro]

Hi all,

I have made a summary of my recent imaging simulations for ACA.
The summary may be seen at
http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~kmorita/CONFIG/aca_study.html
Any comments or questions are welcome.

Brief summary:
1. Imaging simulations show that it is hard to obtain significant 
improvement by simple adding of ACA data with ALMA data. 

2. I have proposed the modified method (method-2) to use smoothed 
total power data instead of raw total power data from 12 m 
antennas. Improvements of imaging quality have been obtained 
by this method. 

3. Imaging simulation using the method-2 shows that ACA with 6 m 
antennas would provide better performance on wide field imagings 
than that of with that with 8 m antennas. 

Koh-Ichiro 

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Koh-Ichiro Morita
(NRAO Tucson until Dec. 20th)
Nobeyama Radio Observatory
National Astronomical Observatory, Japan

Phone: 520-882-8250 
Email: morita at nro.nao.ac.jp