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Accurate beam modeling is important in many radio astronomy applications. In this paper, we focus on beam modeling for 21-cm intensity mapping experiments using radio interferometers, though the techniques also apply to single dish…
The sparse layouts of radio interferometers result in an incomplete sampling of the sky in Fourier space which leads to artifacts in the reconstructed images. Cleaning these systematic effects is essential for the scientific use of…
In this paper are reviewed various designs of advanced, multi-aperture optical systems dedicated to high angular resolution imaging or to the detection of exo-planets by nulling interferometry. A simple Fourier optics formalism applicable…
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There are several solutions to code the signal arising from optical long baseline multi-aperture interferometers. In this paper,we focus on the {\bf non homothetic spatial coding scheme} (multiaxial) with the fringe pattern coded along one…
Astronomical optical interferometers (OI) sample the Fourier transform of the intensity distribution of a source at the observation wavelength. Because of rapid atmospheric perturbations, the phases of the complex Fourier samples…
Radar interferometry usually exploits two complex-valued radar images with the same resolution to extract terrain elevation information. This paper considers the interferometry using two radar images with different resolutions, which we…