An Active Antenna Subarray for the Low-Frequency Radio Telescope GURT—Part I: Design and Theoretical Model
| Autor: | Peter L. Tokarsky, Alexander Konovalenko, I. N. Bubnov, S. N. Yerin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Phased array Frequency band Acoustics Antenna aperture 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology Antenna efficiency Radio telescope 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Active antenna Electrical and Electronic Engineering Noise (radio) Radio astronomy |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 67:7304-7311 |
| ISSN: | 1558-2221 0018-926X |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tap.2019.2927841 |
| Popis: | The new Giant Ukrainian Radio Telescope (GURT) intended for operation in 8–80 MHz range is now under construction. It employs an active phased array antenna composed of many dipole subarrays, several of which have been implemented and now are used for radio astronomy observations. In this two-part paper, the electrical and noise parameters of the subarray are studied by numerical and experimental ways. In this part, a theoretical model of the subarray based on the wave theory of noisy multiport networks that takes into account the mutual coupling in the dipole array placed over imperfect ground and the correlation between all existing noise sources is proposed. It is assumed that the initial parameters for this model should be obtained using the correct electromagnetic and circuit simulation. A technique for using of this model to calculate the effective area, radiation efficiency, internal and external noise temperatures, as well as sensitivity of the subarray in terms of system equivalent flux density (SEFD) for all possible beam directions in the frequency band of the GURT radio telescope is described. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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