Single Dish Polarisation Calibration
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Vol. 19 (2), 277-281
- https://doi.org/10.1071/as01062
Abstract
Using the formalism of Hamaker, Bregman & Sault (1996), I derive a method for the polarisation calibration of observations made with a single radio telescope. This method is particularly appropriate for observations of pulsars, where the sign and magnitude of the circular polarisation are useful for understanding the emission processes at work. I apply the method to observations of PSR J1359–6038 made using the multibeam receiver on the Parkes radio telescope.Keywords
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