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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 341, Issue 4, Pages 1057-1065Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06338.x
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instrumentation : interferometers; cosmic microwave background; cosmology : observations
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The Very Small Array (VSA) is a synthesis telescope designed to image faint structures in the cosmic microwave background on degree and sub-degree angular scales. The VSA has key differences from other CMB interferometers with the result that different systematic errors are expected. We have tested the operation of the VSA with a variety of blank-field and calibrator observations, and cross-checked its calibration scale against independent measurements. We find that systematic effects can be suppressed below the thermal noise level in long observations; the overall calibration accuracy of the flux density scale is 3.5 per cent and is limited by the external absolute calibration scale.
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