Geometric Configuration Optimization for Baseline Interferometry
Author Affiliations
- 1 Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, IRAN
Res. J. Recent Sci., Volume 2, Issue (5), Pages 78-82, May,2 (2013)
Abstract
One of the necessary parts for settlement of baseline interferometric arrays which are used in radio astronomy is to design geometric configuration of the array in a way that most effective results could be achieved. In VLBI imaging the uv plane coverage is a key factor for obtaining better sampling of signals. In this paper the configuration of antenna arrays are optimized by means of PSO and its multi-population version MPSO. By presenting some simulation results, effectiveness of methods, especially for MPSO will be shown.
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