[evlatests] Time-Variable Closure Corrections
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Thu Feb 21 11:54:49 EST 2008
The aliasing problem should manifest itself as a slowly variable
'closure' error. My previous studies of high dynamic range imaging
utilized a single, time-invariant closure correction, and showed that
the assumption of time-invariance is valid only for those channels
sufficiently far from the aliased response.
I thus tried a time-variant correction on a single channel of my
dataset -- channel 13. I tried an hourly correction, with the result
that the 'north-south' closure residual bar in the resulting image was
completely removed. However, the resulting image, although clearly very
much better than the time-invariant version, suffers from low level
artifacts (in the EVLA-EVLA baselines) which are not seen in the central
channels where the aliasing is completely absent.
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