Searching for calibrators

✍ Scribed by G. Duvert; D. Bonneau

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 608 KB
• Volume: 51
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1387-6473
• DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2007.04.001

✦ Synopsis

This chapter focusses on the selection of a good calibrator for interferometric observations. A few software tools are available to help the astronomer in this task. We use as an example the SearchCal webservice that automates most of the process.