[mmaimcal] distant Milky Way?

Simon Radford sradford at nrao.edu
Fri Feb 12 14:04:39 EST 1999


Al,

> there is also the spatial dimension in which one will have adjacent 
> pixels offering up the line; 

If a source appear in more than one pixel (synthesised beam area), then
you are -- gasp -- resolving it. Hence, the flux on some (long)
baselines will be reduced and the SNR will be worse than for the
unresolved, point source cases we have been calculating.

Simon



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