Analysing the impact of far-out sidelobes on the imaging performance of the SKA-LOW telescope
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The Square Kilometre Array’s Low Frequency instrument (SKA-LOW) will operate in the undersampled regime for most of the frequency band where grating lobes pose particular challenges. To achieve the expected level of sensitivity for SKA-LOW, it is particularly important to understand how interfering sources in both near and far side-lobes of the station beam affect the imaging performance. In this study, we discuss options for station designs, and adopting a random element layout, we assess its effectiveness by investigating how sources far from the main lobe of the station beam degrade images of the target field. These sources have the effect of introducing a noise-like corruption to images, which is called the far sidelobe confusion noise (FSCN). Using
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1365-2966