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The new generation of radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), requires dramatic advances in computer hardware and software, in order to process the large amounts of produced data efficiently. In this document, we explore…

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In millimeter-wave communication, large antenna arrays are required to achieve high power gain by steering towards each other with narrow beams, which poses the problem to efficiently search the best beam direction in the angle domain at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhenyu Xiao , Tong He , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

Extremely large aperture array (ELAA) can significantly enhance beamforming gain and spectral efficiency. Unfortunately, the use of narrower beams for data transmission results in a substantial increase in the cost of beam training. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Yuan Si , Hongkang Yu , Yijian Chen

The given work is devoted to the modern developments in the field of radio astronomy instrumentation. In particular, the sensitivity of the multi-beam reflector radio telescope which is fed by phased array (PAF) is considered. Using PAF as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 O. Iupikov

Broadband beamforming is a technique to obtain the signal with a wide range of frequencies. It maintains the signal integrity and spatial selectivity over frequencies. This is important in several applications such as microphone array,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Phan Le Son

Antenna behaviors such as mutual coupling, near-field propagation, and polarization cannot be neglected in signal and channel models for wireless communication. We present an electromagnetic-based array manifold that accounts for several…

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The current generation of air shower radio arrays has demonstrated that the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum Xmax can be reconstructed with high accuracy. These experiments are now contributing to mass composition studies in the…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a radio telescope designed to operate between 70MHz and 10GHz. Due to this large bandwidth, the SKA will be built out of different collectors, namely antennas and dishes to cover the frequency range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 Adam Gauci , Kristian Zarb Adami , John Abela , Babak E. Cohanim

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the radio telescope of the next generation, providing an increase in sensitivity and angular resolution of two orders of magnitude over existing telescopes. Currently, the SKA is expected to span the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. J. Green , W. A. Baan

We describe and demonstrate a technique for correcting direction dependent artifacts due to asymmetries in antenna patterns and differences among antennas used in radio interoferometric imaging. The technique can correct images in all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 W. D. Cotton , T. Mauch

The performance of telescope systems working at microwave or visible/IR wavelengths is typically described in terms of different parameters according to the wavelength range. Most commercial ray tracing packages have been specifically…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luca Olmi , Pietro Bolli

The model of the reflector antenna system with focal plane array, low-noise amplifier and beamformer is developed in the work. The beamformer strategy is suggested to reduce the receiving sensitivity ripple inside field of view of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 O. Iupikov

Image quality in mosaicked observations from interferometric radio telescopes is strongly dependent on the accuracy with which the antenna primary beam is calibrated. The next generation of radio telescope arrays such as the Allen Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Charles L. H. Hull , Geoffrey C. Bower , Steve Croft , Peter K. G. Williams , Casey Law , David Whysong

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) would be the world's largest radio telescope with eventually over a square kilometer of collecting area. However, there are enormous challenges in its data processing. The using of modern distributed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Shoulin Wei , Kaida Luo , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world's most sensitive radio telescope operating in the 50 MHz to 14 GHz frequency range. Construction of the SKA is divided into phases, with the first phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Sascha Schediwy , David Gozzard

This paper presents a computationally efficient decoder for multiple antenna systems. The proposed algorithm can be used for any constellation (QAM or PSK) and any labeling method. The decoder is based on matrix-lifting Semi-Definite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-12 Amin Mobasher , Amir K. Khandani

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the next generation radio telescope distinguished by a superb sensitivity due to its large aperture (about one square kilometre) and advanced instrumentation. It will cover a broad range of observing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 J. G. Bij de Vaate , L. I. Gurvits , S. V. Pogrebenko , C. G. M. van t Klooster

A limiting systematic effect in 21-cm interferometric experiments is the chromaticity due to the coupling between the sky and the instrument. This coupling is sourced by the instrument primary beam; therefore it is important to know the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Ainulnabilah Nasirudin , David Prelogovic , Steven G. Murray , Andrei Mesinger , Gianni Bernardi

This paper is the first in a series of papers describing the impact of antenna instrumental artefacts on the 21-cm cosmology experiments to be carried out by the low frequency instrument (SKA1-LOW) of the Square Kilometre Array telescope…

A new generation of radio telescopes is achieving unprecedented levels of sensitivity and resolution, as well as increased agility and field-of-view, by employing high-performance digital signal processing hardware to phase and correlate…