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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2014 16th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
DOI :
10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887760
