Fully cryogenic phased array prototype camera for the Arecibo radio telescope

German Cortes-Medellin; Amit Vishwas; Stephen Parshley; Donald B. Campbell

doi:10.1117/12.2054940

28 July 2014 Fully cryogenic phased array prototype camera for the Arecibo radio telescope

German Cortes-Medellin, Amit Vishwas, Stephen Parshley, Donald B. Campbell

Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V; 91479Q (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054940
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

We have developed a fully cryogenically cooled, 19-element phased array feed (PAF), prototype camera for the Arecibo Radio Telescope. The 19 PAF elements are dual polarized dipoles over a ground plane, and they sit behind a 70 cm diameter vacuum window transparent to RF.

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German Cortes-Medellin, Amit Vishwas, Stephen Parshley, and Donald B. Campbell "Fully cryogenic phased array prototype camera for the Arecibo radio telescope", Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91479Q (28 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054940

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