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The Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission (ARCADE) is a balloon-borne instrument designed to measure the temperature of the cosmic microwave background at centimeter wavelengths. ARCADE searches for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Kogut , D. Fixsen , S. Fixsen , S. Levin , M. Limon , L. Lowe , P. Mirel , M. Seiffert , J. Singal , P. Lubin , E. Wollack

The Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) is a planned radio interferometer providing unprecedented sensitivity at wavelengths between 21 cm and 3 mm. Its 263 antenna element array will be spatially distributed across North America to…

ALHAMBRA is a project to gather data to sample a fraction of the Universe with enough precision to follow the evolution of its content and properties with z, a kind of Cosmic Tomography. It is defined as a 4 square degrees photometric…

In the medical fields, ultrasound detection is often performed with piezoelectric arrays that enable one to simultaneously map the acoustic fields at several positions. In this work, we develop a novel method for transforming a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Evgeny Hahamovich , Amir Rosenthal

The recent demonstration by the CODALEMA Collaboration of the ability of the radio-detection technique for the characterization of UHE cosmic-rays calls for the use of this powerful method for the observation of UHE neutrinos. For this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Daniel Ardouin , Didier Charrier , Pascal Lautridou , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Olivier Ravel , Xiang-Ping Wu , Meng Zhao

The Boolardy Engineering Test Array is a 6 x 12 m dish interferometer and the prototype of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), equipped with the first generation of ASKAP's phased array feed (PAF) receivers. These…

The lunar Askaryan technique is a method to study the highest-energy cosmic rays, and their predicted counterparts, the ultra-high-energy neutrinos. By observing the Moon with a radio telescope, and searching for the characteristic…

Compressed Sensing (CS) based channel estimation techniques have recently emerged as an effective way to acquire the channel of millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems with a small number of measurements. These techniques, however, are based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Mohammed E. Eltayeb

We investigate a relay network where a multiantenna source can potentially utilize an unauthenticated (untrusted) relay to augment its direct transmission of a confidential message to the destination. Since the relay is untrusted, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Amitav Mukherjee

We present an in-situ antenna characterization method and results for a "low-frequency" radio astronomy engineering prototype array, characterized over the 75-300 MHz frequency range. The presence of multiple cosmic radio sources,…

A Radio interferometer comprises several antennas, spared over a large area. Say ALMA(Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), VLA(very large array), VLBA(Very Long Baseline Array), GMRT(Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope), MWA(…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Akash Kulkarni

The concept of self-mixing antenna arrays is presented and analyzed with respect to its beneficial behavior of large gain over a wide angular range. The large gain is attained by an antenna array with large element spacing, where all array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Jonas Kornprobst , Thomas J. Mittermaier , Thomas F. Eibert

In the parallel calibration for transmitting phased arrays, the calibration receiver must separate the signals belonging to different antenna elements to avoid mutual interference. Existing algorithms encode different antenna elements'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Yujie Lin , Shuai Wang , Xiangyuan Bu , Chengwen Xing , Jianping An

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the next generation radio telescope. Aperture Arrays (AA) are considered for SKA-2 for frequencies up to 1.4 GHz (SKA-1 uses AAs up to 350 MHz). This document presents design considerations of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 A. W. Gunst , A. J. Faulkner , S. Wijnholds , R. Jongerius , S. Torchinsky , W. van Cappellen

The very demanding requirements of the SKA-low instrument call for a challenging antenna design capable of delivering excellence performance in radiation patterns, impedance matching, polarization purity, cost, longevity, etc. This paper is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-07 E. de Lera Acedo , N. Razavi-Ghods , N. Troop , N. Drought , A. J. Faulkner

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to enable near-field communications for achieving enhanced spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution, by drastically increasing the number of antennas. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Haodong Zhang , Li Chen , Shuo Shi

In this proceeding, we summarize the key science goals and reference design for a next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) that is envisaged to operate in the 2030s. The ngVLA is an interferometric array with more than 10 times the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Eric J. Murphy

The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), has started building the largest antenna in the world. Known as FAST, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope is a Chinese mega-science project…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Di Li , Rendong Nan , Zhichen Pan

In this paper, a wideband high-gain 2 ? 2-element subarray is presented for 60 GHz band applications. The antenna is fed with waveguide-fed cavity backed configuration and designed entirely via simple rectangular apertures. To improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-05 Saeideh Shad , Hani Mehrpouyan

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a proposed next generation radio telescope. Between now and 2005 this project is in a technology development and prototyping phase, with construction likely to begin in $\sim 2010$. This paper describes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Bell