Estimation of Orbital Parameters from (u,v)-coverage for a Space Radio Interferometer
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2024-04-01 v1
Abstract
Finding a suitable very long baseline (VLBI) interferometer geometry is a key task in planning observations, especially imaging sessions. The main characteristic of the quality of VLBI imaging data is the (u, v)-coverage. In the case when one or more radio telescopes are located in space, this task becomes more complex. This paper presents a method for recovering the optimal orbital parameters of space radio telescopes for a given desired (u, v)-coverage, which in turn is the inverse task of searching for the optimal geometry and orbital configurations of space-ground and pure space VLBI interferometers.
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@article{arxiv.2403.20187,
title = {Estimation of Orbital Parameters from (u,v)-coverage for a Space Radio Interferometer},
author = {I. I. Bulygin and M. A. Shchurov and A. G. Rudnitskiy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.20187},
year = {2024}
}
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10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables