Mosaicking with cosmic microwave background interferometers

dc.creatorBunn, Emory F.
dc.creatorWhite, Martin
dc.date2006-06-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:57:24Z
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dc.descriptionMeasurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies by interferometers offer several advantages over single-dish observations. The formalism for analyzing interferometer CMB data is well developed in the flat-sky approximation, valid for small fields of view. As the area of sky is increased to obtain finer spectral resolution, this approximation needs to be relaxed. We extend the formalism for CMB interferometry, including both temperature and polarization, to mosaics of observations covering arbitrarily large areas of the sky, with each individual pointing lying within the flat-sky approximation. We present a method for computing the correlation between visibilities with arbitrary pointing centers and baselines and illustrate the effects of sky curvature on the l-space resolution that can be obtained from a mosaic.
dc.description9 pages; submitted to ApJ
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606454
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606454
dc.identifierAstrophys.J.655:21-29,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1086/509867
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/205869
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleMosaicking with cosmic microwave background interferometers
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