[alma-config] simulation
Leonia Kogan
lkogan at aoc.nrao.edu
Fri May 19 16:51:53 EDT 2000
Dear Morita-san,
I have read your short memo about simulations including antenna pointing.
I'd like to make two comments:
1. I suppose that your simulation does not include mosaic. If it does then
skip this comment.
You consider the case when the image(model) size is bigger than the primary
beam. Of cource the big effect of the antenna pointing error can be expected
at this case.
On the other hand if the image(model) size is bigger than the primary
beam than mosaic should be used. So this case is not practical for
the single pointing observation.
2. The synthesyzed beam given at figure 5 shows negative side lobes as big
as ~10%. This looks strange for me. I shown in my paper that negative side
lobes can not be more than 1/(N-1) for snapshot observation and for
natural weighting, where N is number of antennas. I think they should be
even less for non snapshot observation.
May be you do not use natural weighting?
Regards
Leonia Kogan
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