The LOFAR telescope: System architecture and signal processing

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1431-1437

  De Vos, Marco ^a   Gunst, Andre W ^a   Nijboer, Ronald ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aperture synthesis; Low frequency astronomy; Multibeaming; Phased array; Radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CALIBRATION; OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES;

APERTURE SYNTHESIS; DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS; LOW FREQUENCY ARRAYS; LOW-FREQUENCY; MULTIBEAMING; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; SQUARE KILOMETER ARRAYS; TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 67651108750     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2020509     Document Type: Article

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