Synthesis Imaging Baselines -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Synthesis Imaging Baselines

Given n antennas, there are possible baselines

The Very Large Array has 27 antennas, so the number of baselines is

Baseline dependent errors include correlator offset effects, incorrect delay settings, errors in quadrature networks.