Sardinia radio telescope: The new Italian project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 773-783

  Grueff, G ^a   Alvito, G ^b   Ambrosini, R ^a   Bolli, P ^a   Maccaferri, A ^a   Maccaferri, G ^a   Morsiani, M ^a   Mureddu, L ^b   Natale, V ^c   Olmi, L ^c   Orfei, A ^a   Pernechele, C ^b   Poma, A ^b   Porceddu, I ^b   Rossi, L ^a   Zacchiroli, G ^a  

^a INAF ISTITUTO DI RADIOASTRONOMIA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active surface; Beam waveguide; Ground based radio telescopes; Shaped mirrors

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SURFACE; BEAM-WAVEGUIDE; GROUND-BASED RADIO-TELESCOPES; SHAPED MIRRORS;

ANTENNAS; ASTROPHYSICS; FABRICATION; MIRRORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444274003     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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