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1 Limitations of Single Dish Astronomy
Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry: Chapter 1, Section 10 Dr. Griffin Foster SKA-SA/Rhodes University NASSP 2016

2 26 m Dish at Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)
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3 KAT-7 NASSP 2016

4 Angular Resolution Aperture Size: Rayleigh criterion:
Dish Diameter: Observing Wavelength: NASSP 2016

5 Physical limitations of single dishes
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6 Physical limitations of single dishes
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7 Novel Solutions to Physical Limits
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8 Creating a Synthesized Telescope
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9 Creating a Synthesized Telescope
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10 Creating a Synthesized Telescope
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11 Creating a Synthesized Telescope
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12 Creating a Synthesized Telescope
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13 Creating a Synthesized Telescope
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14 KAT-7: A Synthesized Telescope of Telescopes
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