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On the Use of Lunar Occultations for Investigating the Angular Structure of Radio Sources

PAG Scheuer

Australian Journal of Physics 15(3) 333 - 343
Published: 1962

Abstract

It is shown that it is possible, in principle, to recover the strip distribution of brightness aeross a radio source from the Fresnel diffraction pattern which is observed. as a. source is occulted. Practically useful methods of approximating to this ideal 8.1'&. indicated. Rather surprisingly, the resolution attainable in the presence of a given noise level is not related to the angular width of the first Fresnel zone, but is just the same, as it would be if geometrical optics were valid.

https://doi.org/10.1071/PH620333

© CSIRO 1962

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