[mmaimcal] Re: Optimizing arrays for LMA

[Tamara Helfer]

Dear Leonia,

Thanks very much.  I probably won't be in the office until close
to meeting time, so I'm not sure I'll get a chance to print it
out before then.

I think it is very unlikely that we will want to choose arrays
that have inner and outer diameters that are on adjacent
configurations.  This might work well for the compact arrays,
but for the larger arrays, this results in uv coverage that
is too tapered.  I think it's not yet time to worry too much
about cutting corners in order to optimize savings for pads.

As for whether the 2-ring case does as well as a donut in general,
I'd like to look at this some more.  I don't think we can
evaluate the arrays based on the one number that is the size
of the maximum sidelobe.

Anyway, we can talk about all this more at length.  Thanks
very much for running the optimizations!

	Tamara