Antenna array geometries to reduce the compute load in radio telescopes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 2041-2046

  Bunton, John D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation; earth rotation synthesis; radio astronomy; redundancy

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SEPARATION; ARRAY GEOMETRIES; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; CORRELATION; EARTH ROTATION; FAST CONVOLUTION; PARABOLIC DISH ANTENNA; POWER SAVINGS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; REDUNDANCY;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 79958009318     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2123866     Document Type: Article

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