We present the first installation and characterization of a phased array feed (PAF) on the 64 m Parkes radio telescope. The combined system operates best between 0.8 GHz and 1.74 GHz where the beamformed noise temperature is between 45 K and 60 K, the aperture efficiency ranges from 70% to 80%, and the effective field of view is 1.4 deg2 at 1310 MHz. After a 6-month trial observing program at Parkes, the PAF will be installed on the 100 m antenna at Effelsberg. This is the first time a PAF has been installed on a large single-antenna radio telescope and made available to astronomers.
@article{arxiv.1606.03533,
title = {Testing a modified ASKAP Mark II phased array feed on the 64 m Parkes radio telescope},
author = {A. P. Chippendale and R. J. Beresford and X. Deng and M. Leach and J. E. Reynolds and M. Kramer and T. Tzioumis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03533},
year = {2017}
}
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4 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in Electromagnetics in Advanced applications (ICEAA), 2016 International Conference on