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5.x Further Reading and References

General Imaging

1. Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II (Lecture 7) ⤴ : provides much of the foundation in this chapter for imaging and, weighting and sampling functions.
2. Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy (Chapter 10) ⤴ : a complimentary chapter to Lecture 7 of Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II.

Weighting Functions

1. High Fidelity Deconvolution of Moderately Resolved Sources ⤴ : original work which introduced robust weighting, includes a thorough overview of weight schemes.

Widefield Effects

1. Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II (Lecture 19) ⤴ : discusses widefield imaging in more detail
2. The noncoplanar baselines effect in radio interferometry: The W-projection algorithm ⤴ : Discusses the w-projection algorithm in more detail
3. Radio-interferometric imaging of very large fields: The problem of non-coplanar arrays ⤴ : Overview of the wide-field problem and the polyhedron solution, amongst a discussion of other techniques.

Gridding/Degridding

1. On the Spheroidal Functions ⤴
2. Aperture-synthesis mapping and parameter estimation ⤴ (Optimal gridding and degridding functions)

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