Comparison of radome- and astrodome-enclosed large radio telescopes at millimeter wavelengths: the large millimeter telescope

Radio Science

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 733-746

  Olmi, Luca ^a   Mauskopf, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; MEMBRANES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADOMES; WIND EFFECTS; METALS; SPACE TELESCOPES; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

ASTRODOME; DIELECTRIC MEMBRANE; LAR MILLIMETER TELESCOPE;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION; DIELECTRIC MEMBRANES; LARGE MILLIMETER TELESCOPE; LARGE RADIO TELESCOPE; MECHANICAL RIGIDITY; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH; TENSILE MEMBRANE STRUCTURES; TENSILE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0032656345     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS900012     Document Type: Article

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