[evlatests] Aliasing
Barry Clark
bclark at nrao.edu
Thu Mar 27 11:15:17 EDT 2008
Finally the penny dropped.
The aliased power adds to the straight through power as
1 + v(f)exp(4*pi*f*Del)
where f is the frequency in the bandpass, and v(f) the aliasing
function of the digital filter, as provided by Mike, and Del is the
differential delay to the two antennas involved introduced by the
delay lines in the correlator.
I have been assuming that the delay Del was just the adjustable part
of the delay due to geometry, the w of (u,v,w). It is not. It also
contains the compensation for the different fiber delays to the two
antennas involved.
The current fiber delays are given below
ea01 W10 5214
ea04 W18 12633
ea11 E10 7129
ea13 N16 12290
ea14 E16 12004
ea16 W6 3120
ea17 W14 9144
ea18 N12 9288
ea19 W4 3943
ea21 E2 5661
ea23 E18 13493
ea24 W12 6613
ea25 N2 4941
ea26 N6 6203
So, in the observation Gustaaf recently took with w near zero, baselines
in which these fiber delays are nearly the same will have the classic,
rising to low frequency, profile - baseline 17-18 in particular, but also
1-25 and 13-14. Baselines where the difference is near a microsecond will
still be plunging down to low frequency, with a turnaround below the usable
bandpass - 21-24, 11-26, 19-25 for instance. Baselines where the difference
is large will look all squiggly - (4, 13, 14)-(16, 19 25).
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