ASKAP PAF ADE — Advancing an L-band PAF design towards SKA

Author

Hampson, Grant ; Macleod, Adam ; Beresford, Ron ; Brothers, Michael ; Brown, Andrew ; Bunton, John ; Cantrall, Chris ; Chekkala, Raji ; Cheng, Wan ; Forsyth, Ross ; Gough, Russell ; Hay, Stuart ; Kanapathippillai, Jega ; Kiraly, Dezso ; Leach, Mark ; Mori

Author_Institution

CSIRO Astron. & Space Sci., Marsfield, NSW, Australia

fYear

2012

Firstpage

807

Lastpage

809

Abstract

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a new survey telescope, using phased-array feeds (PAFs) to provide a wide field of view, with 300MHz instantaneous bandwidth over the frequency range 0.7-1.8 GHz. ASKAP is currently under construction in outback Western Australia at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO). ASKAP will consist of an array of thirty-six 12-metre diameter dishes, each equipped with a PAF with a `chequerboard´ planar feed structure to provide a field of view of 30 square degrees.

Keywords

UHF antennas; VHF antennas; antenna feeds; antenna phased arrays; array signal processing; radioastronomy; radiotelescopes; ASKAP PAF ADE; Australian SKA pathfinder; L-band PAF design; MRO; Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory; Western Australia; chequerboard planar feed structure; frequency 0.7 GHz to 1.8 GHz; frequency 300 MHz; instantaneous bandwidth; phased-array feed; size 12 m; survey telescope; Arrays; Feeds; Field programmable gate arrays; Heating; Optical fibers; Optical transmitters; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0333-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2012.6328742

Filename

6328742