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Atmospheric Effects and Calibrations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Colin R. Masson
Colin R. Masson*
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Abstract

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Atmospheric opacity severely attenuates millimeter and submillimeter signals. Fluctuations in refractive index limit the angular resolution of interferometers. Conventional phase calibration does not remove atmospheric phase fluctuations, but new techniques may.

Type
2. Technical Innovations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 140: Astronomy with Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Interferometry , 1994 , pp. 87 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1994

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