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5.2.11.4 ’radial’ weighting

The weighting = ’radial’ mode is a seldom-used option that increases the weight by the radius in the uv-plane, ie.

(5.8)

Technically, I would call that an inverse uv-taper since it depends on uv-coordinates and not on the data per-se. Its effect is to reduce the rms sidelobes for an east-west synthesis array. This option has limited utility.

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