Abstract To interpret radio interferometric observations sensitive to linear polarization it is necessary to take into account the effect of instrumental or “parasitic” polarization. In the case of ground-space very-long-baseline interferometry, this procedure involves a session of polarization-sensitive mapping with the sufficient number of ground stations and sufficiently small projections of ground-space baselines. In the paper, the problem of estimating the value of the instrumental polarization of the Spectr-R space radio telescope of the RadioAstron project using the results of the early scientific program for observing active galactic nuclei is addressed. We use a statistical approach to estimate the value of the instrumental polarization associated with the analysis of already obtained to present time intermediate results of the review of brightness temperatures. Estimates obtained for the frequency bands C and L (95% probability intervals [0.0646, 0.1267] and [0.0945, 0.1736] for 6 and 18 cm, respectively) suggest that the instrumental polarization of the radio telescope does not exceed the values typical for the ground VLBI stations.


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    Title :

    First estimate of the value of the instrumental polarization of the RadioAstron space radio telescope using the results of an early scientific program for observing active galactic nuclei


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    Published in:

    Cosmic Research ; 53 , 3 ; 199-208


    Publication date :

    2015-05-01


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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