Antennas for the next generation of low-frequency radio telescopes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 8 I, 2005, Pages 2480-2489

  Ellingson, Steven W ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna array; Dipole; Radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TELESCOPES; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GALACTIC NOISE; LOW-FREQUENCY RADIO TELESCOPES; SIMPLE WIRE DIPOLES;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 27644510534     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.852281     Document Type: Article

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