The green bank telescope

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1382-1390

  Prestage, Richard M ^a,b   Constantikes, Kim T ^a,c   Hunter, Todd R ^d   King, Lee J ^d   Lacasse, Richard J ^a   Lockman, Felix J ^a   Norrod, Roger D ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b JOINT ALMA OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c Elbit Systems of America   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; Pointing systems; Radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

GREEN BANK TELESCOPE; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH; POINTING SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL FEATURES;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 67651122791     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2015467     Document Type: Article

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