Visibility Function -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Visibility Function

For non-coplanar arrays, the integrals can be inverted analytically using a three-dimensional Fourier transform Eric Weisstein's World of Math to obtain the sky brightness

(1)

(2)
Define the image volume function by
(3)

The result, given by Perley, is that

(4)

where I is the actual sky brightness.




References

Perley, R. A. "Wide Field Imaging II: Imaging with Noncoplanar Arrays." Ch. 14 in Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy: Third NRAO Summer School, 1988 (Ed. R. A. Perley, F. R. Schwab, and A. H. Bridle). San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1989.



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