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For insight into the appearance of reflector images in the dip-angle domain, let us consider the case of a hyperbolic reflector (Fomel and Kazinnik, 2013). A special property of hyperbolic reflectors is that they can transform to plane dipping reflectors or point diffractors with an appropriate choice of parameters.
Reflector depth is given by the function
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and zero-offset reflection traveltime is given by
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When the reflector is imaged by time migration in the dip-angle domain
(Sava and Fomel, 2003) using velocity
, point
in
the data domain migrates to
in the image domain
according to
where
is the migration dip angle. Eliminating
from
equations A-3 and A-4, we arrive at the equation
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where
and
. Equation A-5
describes the shape of the image of the hyperbolic
reflector (A-1) in the dip-angle domain.
When the dip of the migrated event, imaged at a correct velocity (
),
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is equal to the dip of the image (
), it also becomes
equal to the true dip of the reflector (
), where
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We can specify these conditions for two special cases described next.
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