• DocumentCode
    995304
  • Title

    Interferometer phase measurements: Comparison with theory

  • Author

    Barton, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Raytheon Co., Bedford, MA, USA
  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1971
  • fDate
    7/1/1971 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    566
  • Lastpage
    569
  • Abstract
    Recent measured results for long baselines are compared with theoretical predictions of interferometer phase fluctuations. The measured values, from the Green Bank observatory in West Virginia, are somewhat smaller than predicted from refractivity spectra data gathered earlier in Colorado. The affects of different lengths and observation times are predicted quite well. It is particularly significant that theory based on the "frozen turbulence" model is so successful in predicting fluctuations over an 11-km baseline.
  • Keywords
    Phase measurement; Radio interferometry; Antennas and propagation; Convergence; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Iterative methods; Matrix decomposition; Phase measurement; Power transmission lines; Tail; Transmission line matrix methods; Upper bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-926X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAP.1971.1139980
  • Filename
    1139980