Analysis and particle swarm optimization of correlator antenna arrays for radio astronomy applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1269-1279

  Jin, Nanbo ^a   Rahmat Samii, Yahya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlator antenna array; Particle swarm optimization; Radio astronomy; Synthesized beam; U v coverage

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION THEORY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

CORRELATOR ANTENNA ARRAY; SYNTHESIZED BEAM;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 44449119429     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.922622     Document Type: Article

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