Antenna design and distribution of the LOFAR super station

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-37

  Girard, Julien N ^a   Zarka, Philippe ^a   Tagger, Michel ^b   Denis, Laurent ^c   Charrier, Didier ^d   Konovalenko, Alexander A ^e   Boone, Frédéric ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF RADIO ASTRONOMY   (Ukraine)

^f IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

Antennas; Configurations; Interferometer; LOFAR; Phased array

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855558343     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2011.11.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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