Paper: astro-ph/0510541
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:26:35 GMT (415kb)

Title: The Large Adaptive Reflector concept

Authors: S.M. Dougherty (1), P.E. Dewdney (1), A. Gray (1) and A.R. Taylor (2)
((1) National Research Council, Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics, DRAO.,
Penticton, Canada (2) Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of
Calgary, Canada)

Comments: 2 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proceeding of the 9th Asian-Pacific
Regional IAU Meeting, 2005
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Cost effective, new antenna technology is required to build the large
collecting area being planned for the next generation of radio telescopes. The
Large Adaptive Reflector (LAR) is a novel concept being developed in Canada to
meet this challenge. A prototype with a 200-350m diameter reflector, operating
up to 2 GHz with a bandwidth of 750 MHz is planned. With a collecting area up
to ~10% of the planned SKA, and an array feed capable of imaging a 0.3 deg^2
field-of-view, the prototype would address a number of the most compelling
questions in modern astrophysics.

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