The Tidbinbilla interferometer.
Abstract
This paper describes a technique to detect and identify weak, small-diameter radio sources with flux densities in the millijansky range. An interferometer system is proposed which will use existing 64 m and 24 m antennas of the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Network near Canberra. Design parameters of the system are described, and a schematic is presented with attention to low-noise traveling wave masers, and phase oscillation devices.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- September 1977
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1977PASA....3..115B
- Keywords:
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- Low Noise;
- Radio Antennas;
- Radio Interferometers;
- Traveling Wave Masers;
- Antenna Design;
- Design Analysis;
- Instrument Errors;
- Position Errors;
- Radiant Flux Density;
- Radiation Detectors;
- Radio Sources (Astronomy);
- Astronomy;
- Radio Interferometers