[Pafgbt] PAF beam spacing on the GBT for a pulsar survey

[D.J. Pisano]

Hey,

Traditional arrays with large gaps are inefficient at mapping small
areas of sky (comparable to the array size) due to the large amounts
of time spent off the region of interest.  In particular, from a
non-pulsar perspective, this would allow you to map the entire EVLA
primary beam out to the HPBW (not quite, but almost) in a single GBT
pointing.  This would be very nice for getting total power information
for extragalactic HI and for mapping small galactic HI fields in
addition to mapping larger areas in HI.

--D.J. Pisano

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