The allen telescope array: The first widefield, panchromatic, snapshot radio camera for radio astronomy and SETI

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1438-1447

  Welch, Jack ^a   Backer, Don ^a   Blitz, Leo ^a   Bock, Douglas C J ^a   Bower, Geoffrey C ^a   Cheng, Calvin ^a   Croft, Steve ^a   Dexter, Matt ^a   Engargiola, Greg ^a   Fields, Ed ^a   Forster, James ^a   Gutierrez Kraybill, Colby ^a   Heiles, Carl ^a   Helfer, Tamara ^a   Jorgensen, Susanne ^a   Keating, Garrett ^a   Lugten, John ^b   MacMahon, Dave ^a   Milgrome, Oren ^a   Thornton, Douglas ^a   Urry, Lynn ^a   Van Leeuwen, Joeri ^c   Werthimer, Dan ^a   Williams, Peter H ^a   Wright, Melvin ^a   Tarter, Jill ^d   Ackermann, Robert ^d   Atkinson, Shannon ^d   Backus, Peter ^d   Barott, William ^e   Bradford, Tucker ^d   Davis, Michael ^d   Deboer, Dave ^f   Dreher, John ^d   Harp, Gerry ^d   Jordan, Jane ^d   Kilsdonk, Tom ^d   Pierson, Tom ^d   Randall, Karen ^d   Ross, John ^d   Shostak, Seth ^d   Fleming, Matt ^g   Cork, Chris ^g   Vitouchkine, Artyom ^g   Wadefalk, Niklas ^h   Weinreb, Sander ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^d SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Advanced Dynamics and Control Laboratory   (United States)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g Minex Engineering   (United States)

^h CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

ⁱ California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Antenna feeds; Array signal processing; Astronomy; Receivers; Search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS); SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPACE RESEARCH; TELESCOPES;

ALLEN TELESCOPE ARRAY; ANTENNA FEEDS; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCES; TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION;

ARRAY PROCESSING;

EID: 67651114085     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2017103     Document Type: Article

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