澳大利亚平方公里阵列探路者：Boolardy 工程测试阵列的性能
天体物理仪器与方法
2016-09-21 v1
摘要
我们描述了 Boolardy 工程测试阵列（BETA）的性能，它是澳大利亚平方公里阵列探路者望远镜 ASKAP 的原型。BETA 是首台使用相控阵馈源技术的孔径合成射电望远镜，使其能够电子形成多达九个双偏振波束。我们报告了用于形成和测量波束的方法，以及对传统校准和成像程序所做的调整，以使 BETA 能够作为多波束孔径合成望远镜运行。我们描述了该仪器的调试过程，并展示了 BETA 的性能细节：灵敏度、波束特性、偏振特性和图像质量。我们总结了其产生的天文科学成果，并从 BETA 的运行中汲取了经验教训，这些经验将与最终 ASKAP 望远镜的调试和运行密切相关。
引用
@article{arxiv.1608.00750,
title = {The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder: Performance of the Boolardy Engineering Test Array},
author = {D. McConnell and J. R. Allison and K. Bannister and M. E. Bell and H. E. Bignall and A. P. Chippendale and P. G. Edwards and L. Harvey-Smith and S. Hegarty and I. Heywood and A. W. Hotan and B. T. Indermuehle and E. Lenc and J. Marvil and A. Popping and W. Raja and J. E. Reynolds and R. J. Sault and P. Serra and M. A. Voronkov and M. Whiting and S. W. Amy and P. Axtens and L. Ball and T. J. Bateman and D. C. -J. Bock and R. Bolton and D. Brodrick and M. Brothers and A. J. Brown and J. D. Bunton and W. Cheng and T. Cornwell and D. DeBoer and I. Feain and R. Gough and N. Gupta and J. C. Guzman and G. A. Hampson and S. Hay and D. B. Hayman and S. Hoyle and B. Humphreys and C. Jacka and C. A. Jackson and S. Jackson and K. Jeganathan and J. Joseph and B. S. Koribalski and M. Leach and E. S. Lensson and A. MacLeod and S. Mackay and M. Marquarding and N. M. McClure-Griffiths and P. Mirtschin and D. Mitchell and S. Neuhold and A. Ng and R. Norris and S. Pearce and R. Y. Qiao and A. E. T. Schinckel and M. Shields and T. W. Shimwell and M. Storey and E. Troup and B. Turner and J. Tuthill and A. Tzioumis and R. M. Wark and T. Westmeier and C. Wilson and T. Wilson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00750},
year = {2016}
}
备注
Accepted for publication in PASA