Improvement of the IRAM 30-m telescope from temperature measurements and finite-element calculations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 851-860

  Greve, Albert ^a   Bremer, Michael ^a   Peñalver, Juan ^b   Raffin, Philippe ^c   Morris, David ^a  

^a IRAM   (France)

^b Institute de Radioastronomie Millimétrique IRAM Núcleo Central   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antennas mechanical factors; Measurements

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIALS; SENSORS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANTENNAS MECHANICAL FACTORS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 13944283780     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.838785     Document Type: Article

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