Signal processing for phased array feeds in radio astronomical telescopes

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 635-646

  Jeffs, Brian D ^a   Warnick, Karl F ^a   Landon, Jonathan ^a   Waldron, Jacob ^a   Jones, David ^a   Fisher, J Richard ^b   Norrod, Roger D ^c  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive arrays; Interference suppression; Radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BEAMFORMING; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLARIZATION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELESCOPES;

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES; BEAMFORMING STRATEGIES; ESTIMATION BIASES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; FIELD OF VIEWS; INTERFERENCE MITIGATIONS; LOW SIGNAL LEVELS; MUTUAL COUPLINGS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHASED ARRAYS; SPATIALLY CORRELATED NOISES; SYSTEM GAINS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 57949104286     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2005023     Document Type: Article

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