Contribution Talk
Post-correlation polarimetric conversion: advantages for calibration and imaging
Speakers
- Dr. Ivan MARTI-VIDAL
- JAVIER GONZALEZ GARCIA
Primary authors
- Dr. Ivan MARTI-VIDAL (University of Valencia)
Co-authors
- JAVIER GONZALEZ GARCIA (IGN - Observatorio de Yebes)
Content
The calibration and imaging of VLBI observations in circular polarization basis is preferred, since the parallactic-angle correction reduced to a simple deterministic phase correction that commutes with all antenna-gain corrections. Circular polarization has indeed been the polarimetry basis in classical VLBI observations. Hence, conversion of the linear-polarization VGOS visibilities into a pure circular basis allows for a direct application of legacy Geodesy and Astronomy algorithms to VGOS observations.
Here we show how the "PolConvert" algorithm can be used to derive the cross-polarization gains of all VGOS antennas and use it to convert the DiFX products to circular basis. We also show preliminary broad-band fringe-fitting results and image reconstructions obtained from EU-VGOS observations.