A measurement of the coupling between close-packed shielded cassegrain antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 836-838

  Padin, Stephen ^a,b   Cartwright, John K ^b   Joy, M ^c   Meitzler, J C ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multireflector antennas; Mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; COSMIC RAYS; RADIATION; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CASSEGRAIN ANTENNA; COSMIC BACKGROUND IMAGER; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION;

ANTENNA REFLECTORS;

EID: 0034187676     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.855504     Document Type: Article

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