Optimizing a large array configuration to minimize the sidelobes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1075-1078

  Kogan, Leonid ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIDELOBES; TWO DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; VERY LARGE BASELINE ARRAY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA LOBES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTERFEROMETERS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0034217211     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.876326     Document Type: Article

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