Antenna design for the millimeter array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 463-473

  Lugten, John B ^a   Cheng, Jingquan ^a   Fleming, Matthew ^b   Kingsley, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna; Radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; TELESCOPES;

ANTENNA; ANTENNA DESIGNS; PERFORMANCE GOALS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 58749101882     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317380     Document Type: Conference Paper

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