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The DOA (direction of arrival) algorithms play a crucial role in evaluating the performances of multiple radiating (\(K\) sources) multiple receiver (\(M\) sensors) array systems. The numerical methods are mainly developed as the spatial covariance based, narrowband DOA algorithms, this last term meaning that the partial contributions of sensors are narrowband signals. It is worth mentioning that the theory is carried out under the hypothesis that the sources are uncorrelated. This contribution, which is a deep analysis in the DOA domain, investigates the results when applying covariance based narrowband methods to the case when the signals are no longer narrowband but broadband ones. The developed theory and the numerical experiments performed by the use of the MUSIC algorithm show that methods used primarily for narrowband signals provide good results for broadband signals. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0990.00077].