De-distorting ionospheric effects in the image plane

The Earth's ionosphere refracts radio waves incident on an interferometer, resulting in shifts to the measured positions of radio sources. We present a method to smoothly remove these shifts and restore sources to their reference positions, in both the catalogue and image domains. The method is...

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Main Authors: Hurley-Walker, Natasha, Hancock, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71045
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description The Earth's ionosphere refracts radio waves incident on an interferometer, resulting in shifts to the measured positions of radio sources. We present a method to smoothly remove these shifts and restore sources to their reference positions, in both the catalogue and image domains. The method is applicable to instruments and ionospheric weather such that all antennas see the same ionosphere. The method is generalisable to repairing any sparsely-sampled vector field distortion to some input data. The code is available under the Academic Free License1from <a href="https://github.com/nhurleywalker/fits_warp">https://github.com/nhurleywalker/fits_warp</a>.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-710452019-03-11T06:47:36Z De-distorting ionospheric effects in the image plane Hurley-Walker, Natasha Hancock, Paul The Earth's ionosphere refracts radio waves incident on an interferometer, resulting in shifts to the measured positions of radio sources. We present a method to smoothly remove these shifts and restore sources to their reference positions, in both the catalogue and image domains. The method is applicable to instruments and ionospheric weather such that all antennas see the same ionosphere. The method is generalisable to repairing any sparsely-sampled vector field distortion to some input data. The code is available under the Academic Free License1from <a href="https://github.com/nhurleywalker/fits_warp">https://github.com/nhurleywalker/fits_warp</a>. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71045 10.1016/j.ascom.2018.08.006 restricted
spellingShingle Hurley-Walker, Natasha
Hancock, Paul
De-distorting ionospheric effects in the image plane
title De-distorting ionospheric effects in the image plane
title_full De-distorting ionospheric effects in the image plane
title_fullStr De-distorting ionospheric effects in the image plane
title_full_unstemmed De-distorting ionospheric effects in the image plane
title_short De-distorting ionospheric effects in the image plane
title_sort de-distorting ionospheric effects in the image plane
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71045