EMBRACE: A multi-beam 20,000-element radio astronomical phased array antenna demonstrator

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1990-2003

  Kant, Gideon W ^a   Patel, Parbhu D ^b   Wijnholds, Stefan J ^a   Ruiter, Mark ^a   Van Der Wal, Erik ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^b Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; array design; array signal processing; mutual coupling; phased arrays; radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SYSTEM; ARRAY DESIGN; ARRAY FACTORS; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; ASTRONOMICAL COMMUNITY; ASTRONOMICAL SOURCES; COST EFFECTIVE DESIGN; DATA PATHS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN GOAL; DUAL-POLARIZED; EMBEDDED ELEMENT; FREQUENCY RANGES; MULTI-BEAM; MUTUAL COUPLING; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; PHASED ARRAYS; SYSTEM NOISE;

CALIBRATION; DESIGN; MULTIBEAM ANTENNAS; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELESCOPES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 79958008000     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2122233     Document Type: Article

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