Title :
The Nançay radio observatory
Author :
Theureau, Gilles
Author_Institution :
Station de Radioastronom. de Nancay, Paris Obs., Paris, France
Abstract :
The Decimetric Radio Telescope, the Radioheliograph and the Decametric Array are operational with renovated instrumentations. The french LOFAR station is installed and connected to the ILT. The CODALEMA experiment of cosmic shower radio detection has deployed 60 new autonomous antennae and the EMBRACE SKA-demonstrator is in its final phase of calibration and testing. R&D activity is growing rapidly with new developments in integrated receivers, focal plane array design and RFI mitigation techniques for SKA. The concept of an extended LOFAR station at 15-80 MHz is under study, for an area 20 times that of a single station.
Keywords :
astronomical observatories; radiotelescopes; CODALEMA experiment; EMBRACE SKA-demonstrator; LOFAR station; Nancay radio observatory; RFI mitigation techniques; calibration final phase; cosmic shower radio detection; decametric array; decimetric radio telescope; focal plane array design; testing final phase; Arrays; Instruments; Observatories; Phased arrays; Radio astronomy; Signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5117-3
DOI :
10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051243