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Date: 04/23/2007 Views: 92

prime focus receiver

This is the prime focus receiver - all the other receivers are in the room beneath, and the secondary reflector (visible here) refocuses the incoming radiation on them. But for low frequencies - like the 350 MHz we're using for the drift-scan survey - the subreflector would not be very efficient (it's not very many wavelengths across) so we use a receiver that swings out to sit at the primary focus.

Date: 07/21/2007
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