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3 Performance Degradation
Pages 13-16

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... The committee concludes that speed, image fidelity, mosaicing ability, and point source sensitivity will all be affected if the ALMA array is descoped. The severest degradation is in image fidelity, which will be reduced by factors of 2 and 3 with descopes to 50 and 40 antennas, respectively.
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