Cryogenic 213 GHz eleven feed for reflector antennas in future wideband radio telescopes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1918-1934

  Yang, Jian ^a   Pantaleev, Miroslav ^b   Kildal, Per Simon ^a   Klein, Benjamin ^c   Karandikar, Yogesh ^a   Helldner, Leif ^b   Wadefalk, Niklas ^a   Beaudoin, Christopher ^d  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Hartebeeshoek Radio Astronomy Observatory   (South Africa)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic technology; radio telescope; reflector antenna; the Eleven feed; wideband feed

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC OPERATIONS; DESIGN AND TESTS; ELECTRICAL DESIGN; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; MEASURED RESULTS; REFLECTOR ANTENNA; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; SUB-DESIGNS; SYSTEM DESIGN; SYSTEM NOISE; TELESCOPE SYSTEM; THE ELEVEN FEED; WIDE-BAND;

DESIGN; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; LOW TEMPERATURE ENGINEERING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO TELESCOPES; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CRYOGENICS;

EID: 79957987221     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2122229     Document Type: Article

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