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Title: Imaging with the Mauritius radio telescope: challenges and results
Authors: Udaya Shankar, N.
Golap, K.
Sachdev, S.
Dodson, R.
Katwaroo, M.
Sastry, Ch.V.
Issue Date: Oct-2002
Publisher: Kluwer
Citation: Astrophysics and Space Science, 2002, Vol.282, p15-28
Abstract: The Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT) has been built with the main objective of surveying the southern sky at meter wavelengths. MRT is a Fourier synthesis, T-shaped non-coplanar array. It consists of a 2048 m long East-West arm with 1024 fixed helices and a 880 m long South arm with 15 trolleys. Each trolley has four helices. A 512 channel, 2-bit 3-level complex correlation receiver is used to process the data from the EW and S group outputs. At least 60 days of observing are required for obtaining the Fourier components of the brightness distribution of the sky required to complete the survey. The MRT survey will be one of the most extensive survey at low frequencies providing a moderately deep radio catalog reaching a source density of about 2 × 104 sr-1 over most of the sky south of δ=-10° with an angular resolution of 4' × 4.6' sec (δ) and a limiting flux density of 200 mJy (3 σ level) at 151 MHz. This paper will describe the telescope, the observations carried out so far, challenges of imaging with the data acquired over a period exceeding four years with a non-coplanar array, and summarises the results obtained so far.
Description: Restricted Access.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/1589
ISSN: 0004-640X
1572-946X (Online)
Alternative Location: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021121613990
Copyright: (2002) Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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