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A description is given of the aperture synthesis technique, the common technique in radioastronomy to obtain high resolving powers. In addition to the basic background of aperture synthesis, a description of the most common observational deficiencies is given, together with the ways to obtain “maps” of the radio sky from the observed visibility function.
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Brouw, W.N. (1981). Radioastronomy. In: Bjørnø, L. (eds) Underwater Acoustics and Signal Processing. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8447-9_57
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