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High Resolution Imaging at mm-Wavelengths with the Hat Creek Array

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

W. C. Erickson
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
L. G. Mundy
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
A. Grossman
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

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The Hat Creek mm-wavelength array, operated by the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA), is undergoing an expansion to nine telescopes. The first six of these telescopes will be operational in January, 1993. The telescopes are relatively small, 6 m in diameter, and are moved on rubber-tired dollies so it will be possible to transport them on roads in the vicinity of the main array. Initially, we plan to place two of the telescopes at outrigger sites located 0.5 and 1.0 km from the main array. Use of these outrigger telescopes will yield angular resolutions of 0.45 arc-sec at 2.7 mm wavelength and 0.21 arc-sec at 1.2 mm wavelength. When all nine telescopes are operational, reasonable image quality will be obtained with a single 12-hour observation. The maximum sidelobe amplitude depends upon source declination, but is about 16%. Figures 1, 2, and 3 show the uv coverage and beamshapes which will be achieved at various declinations.

Type
Imaging Results: Radio and Millimeter Waves
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Copyright © Kluwer 1994