Absolute calibration of a wideband antenna and spectrometer for accurate sky noise temperature measurements

Radio Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Rogers, Alan E E ^a   Bowman, Judd D ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; AMPLIFIER NOISE; RED-SHIFTED; REFLECTION COEFFICIENT MEASUREMENT; SKY-NOISE; SPECTRAL INDICES; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS; WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84863918769     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011RS004962     Document Type: Article

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