• DocumentCode
    1795175
  • Title

    Designing antennas for the aperture array SKA-low instrument; a system perspective

  • Author

    de Lera Acedo, E. ; Razavi-Ghods, N. ; Faulkner, A.J. ; Geralt bij de Vaate, Jan

  • Author_Institution
    Cavendish Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    13-16 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the important design aspects of an array antenna for the low frequency instrument of the SKA telescope (SKA-low). The most important considerations to meet the telescope performance requirements are discussed. Finally, a plot of the expected sky brightness sensitivity for phase I of the SKA using log-periodic antennas is presented.
  • Keywords
    aperture antennas; log periodic antennas; radiotelescopes; sky brightness; SKA telescope; aperture array SKA-low instrument; log periodic antenna array; radiotelescope; sky brightness sensitivity; square kilometre array telescope; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Brightness; Sensitivity; Telescopes; log-periodic antenna; radio astronommy; system design;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2014 16th International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Victoria, BC
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887760
  • Filename
    6887760