RADIO ASTRONOMICAL CALIBRATION/TECHNIQUES HANDOUTS by me, myself, and I

---------------- TUTORIALS ON RADIO ASTRONOMY AND CALIBRATION -----------
File Name
Description
fount.ps Specific intensity, brightness temperature, antenna temperature: the fount of all knowledge!
cal_intensity.ps Calibrating the intensity and shape of spectral lines
f_filter.ps How to Fourier filter your reference spectrum when calibrating the shape of spectral lines.
fsw.ps Obtaining the I.F. bandpass and R.F. spectrum using Least-Squares Frequency Switching (LSFS)
sch1.ps A Heuristic Introduction to Radioastronomical Polarization: the original paper for the ASP Conf Proceedings (2002) vol 278 ``Single-Dish Radio Astronomy: Techniques and Applications.''
schtalk_09.pdf An Heuristic Introduction to Radioastronomical Polarization: my 2009 Single-Dish Summer School lecture
ao4.ps The original Mueller Matrix tech memo AOTM99-01. See also the PASP version with Arecibo Staff: Also, the Green-Bank version with Rick Fisher
ao5.ps The original Arecibo spider-scan beam-properties tech memo AOTM 99-02. See also the PASP version with Arecibo Staff:
gbt13.ps Calibrating the GBT at L, C, and X Bands in all 4 Stokes Parameters (same as GBT Commissioning Memo 23)
2003GBT.memo.23.pdf The Proper Production of Full-Stokes Spectra Using the Fully-Functioning Full-Stokes Mode of the GBT Spectrometer (Robishaw/Heiles) (same as GBT Technical Memo 244)
mixerlab_06.ps Principles of double- and single- sideband mixers (as embodied in our undergrad mixer lab writeup)
interf_06.ps VLB fringe fitting and Sun/Moon diameters with our 12 GHz interferometer
verschuur_rebuttal.pdf My explanation and rebuttal of "Verschuur's Indictment" (which trashes all Zeeman-splitting detections of HI in emission, even his own). This appears in an obscure journal (1998, Astrophysical Letters and Communications, vol 37, 85) and has the even more obscure title "Zeeman Splitting Opportunities and Techniques at Arecibo''.

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