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General Documentation on Self-Calibration

  • Old document on the LOFAR configuration, J.E. Noordam, March 2001 ()

  • Old station processing document, J.E. Noordam, 2001/2002? () LOFAR Calibration CDR (16 and 17 november 2005)

  • LOFAR CDR document LOFAR calibration strategy, J.E. Noordam ()

  • A collection of overhead slides, J.E. Noordam ()

Conferences

ADASS 2005

  • LOFAR Self-Calibration using a Local Sky Model, R.J. Nijboer, J.E. Noordam, S.B. Yatawatta (, )

  • Meq Parm: Parameter handling in the Meq Tree system, M. Mevius, O.M. Smirnov, J.E. Noordam ()

  • Implementing arbitrary Measurement Equations with the Meq Tree module, O.M. Smirnov, J.E. Noordam () ADASS 2004

  • The LOFAR Global Sky Model: some design challenges, O.M. Smirnov, J.E. Noordam () SPIE 2004

  • LOFAR Calibration Challenges, J.E. Noordam () SKA Penticton 2004

  • LOFAR / SKA Source Subtraction, Poster J.E. Noordam ()) ICASSP 2005

  • Calibration, Sensitivity, and RFI Mitigation Requirements for LOFAR, A.J. Boonstra, S.J. Wijnholds, S. van der Tol, B. Jeffs ()

Self-Calibration

  • Overview document, J.E. Noordam, 2001???? (needs to be updated?) () Measurement Equation

  • Understanding Radio Polarimetry. I. Mathematical foundations, J.P. Hamaker, J.D. Bregman, R.J. Sault, Astron. Astrophys. Supll. Ser. 1996 ()

  • Understanding Radio Polarimetry. II. Instrumental calibration of an interferometer array, R.J. Sault, J.P. Hamaker, J.D. Bregman, Astron. Astrophys. Supll. Ser. 1996 ()

  • Understanding Radio Polarimetry. III. Interpreting the IAU/IEEE definitions of the Stokes parameters, J.P. Hamaker, J.D. Bregman, Astron. Astrophys. Supll. Ser. 1996 ()

  • Understanding Radio Polarimetry. IV. The full coherency analogue of scalar self-calibration: Self-alignment, dynamic range and polarimetric fidelity, Astron. Astrophys. Supll. Ser. 2000 ()

  • The Measurement Equation of a generic radio telescope, AIPS++ Implementation note 185, J.E. Noordam () Peeling

  • Peeling the Visibility Onion, J.E. Noordam, 2002??? (needs to be updated) ()

  • Presentation at the Self-Cal Open Dag september 2004, T.A. Oosterloo ()

  • Presentation at the SKA WFI workshop 2005 about the mathematical analysis of the Peeling algorithm, B.D Jeffs, S. van der Tol () Minimum Ionosphere Model

  • Documument describing the MIM, J.E. Noordam, Mar. 2005 (needs to be updated) ()

  • Presentation at the SKA WFI Workshop 2005, J.E. Noordam ()

  • Poster at the URSI 2006, J.M. Anderson, H.J. van Langevelde, R.M. Campbell, J.E. Noordam () Global Sky Model

  • Developing GSM concepts in PSS4, O.M. Smirnov, Aug. 2003 () Local Sky Model

  • Functional description of the LSM, J.E. Noordam, R.J. Nijboer, Jul. 2005 ()

  • Description of the implementation of the LSM, R.J. Nijboer, J.E. Noordam, Jul. 2005 () UVBricks

  • Outdated document desribing the implementation of the UV-Brick based on wavelengths, R.J. Nijboer, Apr. 2005 ()

  • Document desribing the implementation of the UV-Brick based on meters (needs to be updated), R.J. Nijboer, Aug. 2005 () Meq Parm

  • Functional description of the Meq Parm (needs to be updated?), J.E. Noordam, M. Mevius, Jul. 2005 () Bandpass calibration

  • Document on Bandpass Calibration (needs to be updated?), J.E. Noordam, Oct. 2005 () Image Plane Effects

  • Solving for antenna based pointing errors, S. Bhatnagar, T.J. Corwell, K. Golap, EVLA memo 84, 2003 () Bandpass Sawtooth Ripple (BSR) effect

  • Document on the BSR effect, J.E. Noordam, Apr. 2004 () LAR Simulations

  • Presentation at the SKA WFI Workshop 2005, A.G. Willis ()

Operation 343

  • Presentation the Self-Cal Open Dag of May 2005, M.A. Brentjes ()
  • Document describing the reduction steps, M.A. Brentjes ()
  • Document on the amount of processing, M.A. Brentjes ()

Meq Tree vs. BBS

  • Outdated document describing issues of importance to the Meq Tree and BBS teams, R.J. Nijboer, Mar. 2005 (RJN__BBS.pdf)

Meq Tree Module

  • PSS5 document, J.E. Noordam, Nov. 2004 (outdated) ()
  • Design document of the Meq Tree Kernel, O.M. Smirnov, Jan. 2005 ()
  • Meq Tree for Dummies, A.G. Willis, Jan. 2005 (AGW__Dummies.pdf)
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