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Evaluation of LEAP for LOW tied-array beam-forming

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      Ability to correct for direction-dependent ionosphere in tied-array beamforming. No other algorithms have yet been proposed for this purpose.

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      Ability to correct for direction-dependent ionosphere in tied-array beamforming. No other algorithms have yet been proposed for this purpose.
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       * Examples of atmospheric measurements, for a range of conditions (freq and turbulence), suitable for feeding into simulations

        * Estimates of timescales, rates and residuals

        * Tests with and without RFI, with success statistics

        * Tests of a range of synthesised bandwidths (new MWA obs) 

        * Measurements of computing requirements for each component of the chain (new analysis)

        * a CPU example of a parallel LEAP calibration (coding)

        * a GPU example of a parallel LEAP calibration (coding)

       

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      Outputs:  * Examples of atmospheric measurements, for a range of conditions (freq and turbulence), suitable for feeding into simulations   * Estimates of timescales, rates and residuals   * Tests with and without RFI, with success statistics   * Tests of a range of synthesised bandwidths (new MWA obs)    * Measurements of computing requirements for each component of the chain (new analysis)   * a CPU example of a parallel LEAP calibration (coding)   * a GPU example of a parallel LEAP calibration (coding)  
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      https://jira.skatelescope.org/secure/attachment/13726/13726_Sp-288-report.pdf Lightweight document: PDF:  https://drive.google.com/a/skaint.org/file/d/1Um4ptyBTP9Ez_TsCWkg-kUK3GlK270A4/view?usp=sharing
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    Description

      There is a requirement to form tied-array beams (for pulsar search and timing or VLBI) anywhere in the LOW field of view. Because of ionospheric anisoplanatism, this will require direction-dependent corrections in addition to the standard direction-independent complex gain solutions. At present, only direction-independent calibration against a known global sky model is envisaged.

      LEAP (Rioja, Dodson & Franzen 2018; MN 478, 2337) is a method for evaluating delays for a grid of sources across the sky, from which solutions can be interpolated to arbitrary directions and provided to CSP for beam-forming. It is embarrassingly parallel, and therefore has the potential to run on ionospheric variation timescales, at least for compact configurations.

      This feature is to evaluate the potential of LEAP for real-time beamforming.

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