NRAO plans to
build a beam forming array for the Green
Bank Telescope (GBT), capable of producing 7 beams at L-band. The physical
size of 21-cm feeds at the GBT makes it impossible to support a system
with more than three beams if they are formed in the traditional fashion
- by stacking feed horns side by side. The beam forming array is the most
natural, efficient, and logical way to gain the advantage, and would represent
a breakthrough in technology. Such an instrument would open up many new
survey possibilities, in spectral line and continuum imaging and polarization,
as well as searches for new pulsars along the Galactic Plane. This
project is a joint development venture between the Green
Bank facility in West Virginia and the Central
Development Lab in Charlottesville, Virginia.
For more information, please select items in the Contents frame to the
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