The LWA1 radio telescope

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2540-2549

  Ellingson, S W ^a   Taylor, G B ^b   Craig, J ^b   Hartman, J ^c   Dowell, J ^b   Wolfe, C N ^a   Clarke, T E ^d   Hicks, B C ^d   Kassim, N E ^d   Ray, P S ^d   Rickard, L J ^b   Schinzel, F K ^b   Weiler, K W ^e  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna array; beamforming; radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES;

ARRAY CALIBRATION; FREQUENCY RANGES; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; INTRINSIC SENSITIVITY; MEASUREMENTS OF; STEERABLE BEAMS; SYSTEM EQUIVALENT FLUX DENSITIES; TRUE TIME DELAY;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84877312044     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2242826     Document Type: Article

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