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Phase Centre and Track

The phase centre shift using the Wheel Model gives an average of over 100 microns total, even if we note that only the component along the line of sight is important (sin of angle between shift and line of sight) we are still in the realm of 100 microns plus for worst case scenarios.

There is the possibility of creating a phase centre lookup table to compensate for shifts in the phase centre if the instrumentation can make use of such data.



James B. Scobbie
Wed Nov 8 12:54:29 HST 1995