General information

AA Calibration and Calibratability Meeting
12-13 July, 2012
Novotel Amsterdam Airport Hotel, The Netherlands

Motivation

The instrument design for SKA aperture arrays should consist of a hardware design and a design for the signal processing methods and signal processing hardware needed to form the astronomical data products of the instrument. Calibration and imaging are essential aspects that should be covered in this design. In the context of the AAVP, a Calibration & Imaging Working Group was set up to study these calibration and imaging issues for SKA aperture arrays. This working group has concluded that considerable progress has been made in the following areas

1. translation of calibratability and image reconstructability requirements to instrument requirements;
2. development of new and fast (direction dependend) calibration algorithms;
3. station beam modeling for forward prediction and reducing the number of beam calibration parameters;
4. development of end-to-end simulation tools.

To conclude these efforts in the AAVP context and to look ahead towards SKA stage 1, we organize this meeting to review the current status and identify issues that need to be studied in more detail in the next phase.