TU-SP.2A: International Collaborations on Next-Generation Radio Astronomical Instruments |
| Session Type: Special Session Oral |
| Time: Tuesday, July 9, 08:00 - 11:20 |
| Location: Grand Ballroom D |
| Session Chairs: David Davidson, Curtin University and Karl Warnick, Brigham Young University
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| 08:00 - 08:20 |
| TU-SP.2A.1: THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY OBSERVATORY |
| Maria Grazia Labate, Mark Waterson, Gerhard Swart, Mark Bowen, Peter Dewdney, Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation, United Kingdom |
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| 08:20 - 08:40 |
| TU-SP.2A.2: PRIMARY BEAMS OF THE MEERKAT RADIO TELESCOPE: MEASUREMENTS AND SIMULATIONS |
| Dirk De Villiers, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Khan Asad, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa; Oleg Smirnov, Rhodes University, South Africa; Robert Lehmensiek, EMSS Antennas (Pty) Ltd, South Africa; Matthieu De Villiers, Justin Jonas, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa |
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| 08:40 - 09:00 |
| TU-SP.2A.3: THE SKA APERTURE ARRAY VERIFICATION SYSTEM: MEASURED DIGITALLY-BEAM-FORMED RADIATION PATTERNS |
| Giuseppe Virone, Fabio Paonessa, Stefania Matteoli, Lorenzo Ciorba, Giuseppe Addamo, Oscar Antonio Peverini, CNR-IEIIT, Italy; Eloy de Lera Acedo, Edgar Colín-Beltrán, Nima Razavi Ghods, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Pietro Bolli, INAF-OAA, Italy; Giuseppe Pupillo, INAF-IRA, Italy; Andrea Maria Lingua, Marco Piras, Irene Aicardi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Kris Zarb Adami, Alessio Magro, University of Malta, Malta |
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| 09:00 - 09:20 |
| TU-SP.2A.4: SPARSE-REGULAR ARRAY DESIGN FOR SKA MID FREQUENCY APERTURE ARRAY |
| Brandt Klopper, Dirk De Villiers, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Jan Geralt bij de Vaate, ASTRON and Stellenbosch University, Netherlands; David Davidson, ICRAR-Curtin and Stellenbosch University, Australia |
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| 09:20 - 09:40 |
| TU-SP.2A.5: GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION OF A PHASED ARRAY FEED ON THE ARECIBO TELESCOPE FOR MAXIMUM SURVEY EFFICIENCY |
| Karl Warnick, Jakob Kunzler, Brigham Young University, United States; German Cortes-Medellin, Cornell University, United States |
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| 09:40 - 10:00 Break |
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| 10:00 - 10:20 |
| TU-SP.2A.6: RADIATION EFFICIENCY CALCULATION OF THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY USING A POWER WAVE BASED FRAMEWORK |
| Daniel Ung, Adrian Sutinjo, David Davidson, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Steven Tingay, Curtin University, Australia |
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| 10:20 - 10:40 |
| TU-SP.2A.7: NEW RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY: A TECHNOLOGY UPDATE FROM CSIRO AND FAST |
| Alex Dunning, Mia Baquiran, Ron Beresford, Michael Bourne, Mark Bowen, Michael Brothers, John Bunton, Nick Carter, Santiago Castillo, Yuqing Chen, Wan Cheng, Yoon Chung, Paul Doherty, Daniel George, Grant Hampson, Douglas Hayman, Kanapathippillai Jeganathan, Henry Kanoniuk, Simon Mackay, Les Reilly, Paul Roberts, Peter Roush, Sean Severs, Robert Shaw, Ken Smart, Stephanie Smith, John Tuthill, Tasso Tzioumis, Veronica-Claire Venables, CSIRO, Australia; Rendong Nan, Chengjin Jin, Yan Zhu, Yang Cao, Xiangwei Shi, Jinyou Song, Jinglong Yu, Jin Fan, Youling Yue, Lei Qian, Dong Bin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 |
| TU-SP.2A.8: ANTENNA PHASE CENTER ANALYSIS FOR THE LOFAR RADIO TELESCOPE |
| Paola Di Ninni, Pietro Bolli, Renzo Nesti, Giuseppe Pupillo, INAF, Italy; Giuseppe Virone, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy; Stefan Wijnholds, ASTRON, Netherlands |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 |
| TU-SP.2A.9: DESIGN OF AN ULTRA LOW FREQUENCY CUBESAT ANTENNA PAYLOAD FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY IN SPACE: STATE OF THE ART |
| Cornelis Vertegaal, Mark Bentum, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands |
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