RIME Components

The various components of the Radio Interferometer Measurement Equation (RIME) (Smirnov 2011, and references therein) are implemented in MeqSilhouette. The generic RIME is given by

\[V_{pq} = G_{p} \left(\sum_{s} E_{ps} K_{ps} B_{s} K_{qs}^H E_{qs}^H \right) G_{q}^H\]

where for source \(s\) and antenna \(p\), \(G_{p}\) and \(E_{ps}\) represent the direction-independent effects (DIEs) and direction-dependent effects (DDEs) respectively, \(K_{ps}\) represents the scalar phase delay matrix, and \(B_{s}\) represents the brightness matrix.

For more details, refer to Natarajan et al., (in prep).