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From Chap. 6, the angular resolution of a filled aperture radio telescope is θ = k λ∕D, where θ is the angular resolution, λ is the wavelength of the radiation received, D is the diameter of the instrument and k is a factor of order unity that depends on details of antenna illumination (see, e.g. Jenkins and White 2001).
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Wilson, T.L., Rohlfs, K., Hüttemeister, S. (2013). Interferometers and Aperture Synthesis. In: Tools of Radio Astronomy. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39950-3_9
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