Deterministic RF nulling in phased arrays for the next generation of radio telescopes

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 13-22

  Smolders, Bart ^a,b   Hampson, Grant ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Calibration; Electromagnetic radiative interference; Interference suppression; Phased arrays; Radio astronomy; Spatial nulling

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES;

MULTI ELEMENT PHASE TOGGLE TECHNIQUE; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; RADIO FREQUENCY NULLING; SPATIAL NULLING;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 0036703503     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2002.1043143     Document Type: Article

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