• DocumentCode
    1928720
  • Title

    The Nançay radio observatory

  • Author

    Theureau, Gilles

  • Author_Institution
    Station de Radioastronom. de Nancay, Paris Obs., Paris, France
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    13-20 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5117-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051243
  • Filename
    6051243