Beyond the isoplanatic patch in the VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey

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Oct 2004

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Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Oschmann, Jacobus M., Jr. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5489, pp. 180-189 (2004).

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Ionospheric phase errors degrade high-resolution radio images below 100 MHz, and they differ significantly from the tropospheric errors which dominate at high frequencies. The ionosphere is so high (~400 km) and the VLA primary beam is so wide (~0.2 rad) that the intersection of the beam with the ionospheric screen is larger than the "isoplanatic patch" size, a phase coherent region on the sky. Antenna-based calibration techniques developed at higher frequencies cannot be used because ionospheric phase errors vary significantly across the field-of-view of each antenna. This paper describes the "field-based calibration" technique adopted for the 74 MHz VLA Low--frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) being made with the 10 km "B" configuration. This technique is useful for a range of array sizes but fails on baselines longer than the linear size of the isoplanatic patch, a few 10s of km at 74 MHz. Implications for designing larger low-frequency arrays are discussed.

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