Concentric Circles and Spiral Configurations for Large Correlator Arrays in Radio Astronomy

• Main Authors: Kiehbadroudinezhad, Shahideh, Cada, Michael, Chen, Zhizhang (David), Shahabi, Adib, Short, C. Ian, Abidin, Zamri Zainal, Kiehbadroudinezhad, Samiramis
• Format: Article
• Published: IOP Publishing 2018
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QC Physics
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/22249/; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aade8a

Aperture synthesis arrays are commonly used in radio astronomy to take images of radio point sources, with the planned Square Kilometre Array (SKA) being the most common example. One approach to enhancing the quality of the images is to optimize an antenna array configuration in a possible SKA imple...