6.2 Given two sources of amplitude a1 = 10 and a2 = 5, and spatial position q1 = 12 arcsec and q2 = -6 arcsec, what is the resultant amplitude and phase, ar and fr measured on a baseline of fringe spacing 54 arcsec? If measured at 5 GHz, what projected baseline length between the two antennas does this fringe spacing correspond to? What is the corresponding value of u, in wavelengths, assuming the baseline is entirely East-West?
6.3 Write a program (in IDL or MatLAB) to plot u,v coverage for the EOVSA array (latitude 37.23317 N), whose (E, N, U) antenna locations (in meters) are shown in the table below. Write the program to accept, as input parameters, the observing frequency, the source declination, and the hour angle range. Use your program to plot the u,v coverage for 10 GHz observing frequency, for (1) a source at declination d = 13o, and (2) a source at declination d = 0o. Both plots should cover an hour angle range -6h < h < +6h with 0.1 h resolution. In your plots, plot u on the horizontal axis, and v on the vertical axis, with (0,0) at the center of the plot, and use equal u and v scales ranging from -150 kl to 150 kl. Label the scales in kilowavelengths. Do not forget to plot both u,v points for a given baseline. Keep your program--you will be using a modified version of it in the following homework.
Antenna # |
E (m) |
N (m) |
U (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
187.86 |
71.74 |
1.04 |
2 |
196.15 |
75.14 |
1.03 |
3 |
175.11 |
77.39 |
1.04 |
4 |
197.96 |
50.25 |
1.04 |
5 |
194.66 |
108.86 |
1.13 |
6 |
147.42 |
35.91 |
1.04 |
7 |
266.83 |
67.10 |
1.23 |
| 8 | 98.95 |
169.34 |
1.32 |
| 9 | 20.35 |
-218.49 |
0.93 |
| 10 | 167.43 |
280.78 |
1.66 |
| 11 | -442.00 |
-138.59 |
-0.25 |
| 12 | 640.22 |
-355.82 |
0.95 |
| 13 | -329.06 |
861.82 |
3.01 |
| 14 | -631.00 |
-184.00 |
25.84 |
| 15 | -213.00 |
-187.00 |
25.22 |