Imaging extended sources with coded mask telescopes: Application to the INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI instrument
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In coded mask techniques, reconstructed sky images are pseudo-images: they are maps of the correlation between the image recorded on a detector and an array derived from the coded mask pattern.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006