Noise statistics in a fast digital radio receiver: The Bedlam backend for the Parkes radio telescope

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 155-174

  Bray, Justin D ^a,b   Ekers, Ron D ^b   Roberts, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

ADC non linearity; Coherent pulse detection; Digital radio receivers; Gaussian noise statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881249920     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-012-9327-9     Document Type: Article

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