• DocumentCode
    3540053
  • Title

    Measurements and characterization of differentially-fed antennas for radio astronomy; The case of SKALA

  • Author

    de Lera Acedo, E. ; Reader, Howard C. ; Razavi-Ghods, N.

  • Author_Institution
    Cavendish Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-13 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    968
  • Lastpage
    971
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the advantages and disadvantages of differential feeding of an antenna for low-frequency radio astronomy in the context of the SKA-low telescope. A series of practical measurements to test the correct functionality of the antenna + differential amplifier pair are described and results are presented and discussed.
  • Keywords
    antennas; differential amplifiers; radioastronomy; radiotelescopes; SKA-low telescope; antenna-differential amplifier pair functionality; differentially-fed antenna characterization; differentially-fed antenna measurements; low-frequency radio astronomy; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Extraterrestrial measurements; Impedance matching; Noise; Radio astronomy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2013 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5705-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEAA.2013.6632384
  • Filename
    6632384