The C-Band all-sky survey (C-BASS): Design and implementation of the Northern receiver

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 438, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2426-2439

  King, O G ^a,b   Jones, Michael E ^b   Blackhurst, E J ^c   Copley, C ^b   Davis, R J ^c   Dickinson, C ^c   Holler, C M ^b,d   Irfan, M O ^c   John, J J ^b   Leahy, J P ^c   Leech, J ^b   Muchovej, S J C ^a   Pearson, T J ^a   Stevenson, M A ^a   Taylor, Angela C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d ESSLINGEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxy: general; Instrumentation: Polarimeters; Radio continuum: general

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; NOTCH FILTERS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIO TELESCOPES; SURVEYS;

1/F NOISE; 1/F-NOISE; ALL-SKY SURVEY; ANALOG RECEIVERS; C-BANDS; GALAXIES GENERAL; INSTRUMENTATION: POLARIMETERS; LINEAR POLARIZATION; RADIO CONTINUUM: GENERAL; SURVEY DESIGN;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 84894055225     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt2359     Document Type: Article

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