Open-Ended Configurations of Radio Telescopes: Towards Optimal Design

Authors

Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Scott A. Starks, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Andrei Finkelstein

Publication Date

1-2002

Comments

UTEP-CS-02-01.

Published in the Proceedings of the 2002 World Automation Congress, Orlando, Florida, June 9-13, 2002, Paper ISSCI007.

Abstract

The quality of radio astronomical images drastically depends on where we place the radio telescopes. During the design of the Very Large Array, it was empirically shown that the power law design, in which n-th antenna is placed at a distance n^b from the center, leads to the best image quality. In this paper, we provide a theoretical justification for this empirical fact.