Orbiting low frequency array for radio astronomy

RT Rajan, S Engelen, M Bentum… - 2011 Aerospace …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently new and interesting science drivers have emerged for very low frequency radio
astronomy from 0.3 MHz to 30 MHz. However Earth bound radio observations at these …

DARIS, A low-frequency distributed aperture array for radio astronomy in space

AJ Boonstra, N Saks, MJ Bentum… - … Congress, IAC 2010, 2010 - research.utwente.nl
Abstract DARIS (Distributed Aperture Array for Radio Astronomy in Space) is a radio
astronomy space mission concept aimed at observing the low-frequency radio sky in the …

[PDF][PDF] The road to OLFAR-a roadmap to interferometric long-wavelength radio astronomy using miniaturized distributed space systems

S Engelen, K Quillien, C Verhoeven… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - sps.ewi.tudelft.nl
ABSTRACT The Orbiting Low Frequency Antennas for Radio Astronomy (OLFAR) project
aims to develop a space-based low frequency radio telescope that will explore the …

DARIS, a fleet of passive formation flying small satellites for low frequency radio astronomy

N Saks, AJ Boonstra, RT Rajan… - 2010 Symposium on …, 2010 - research.utwente.nl
Abstract DARIS (Distributed Aperture Array for Radio Astronomy In Space) is a mission to
conduct radio astronomy in the low frequency region from 1-10MHz. This region has not yet …

Synchronization for space based ultra low frequency interferometry

RT Rajan, M Bentum… - 2013 IEEE Aerospace …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, there is a renewed interest in space based arrays for low frequency observations.
Orbiting Low Frequency Antenna Array (OLFAR) is one such project which investigates the …

[PDF][PDF] OLFAR-orbiting low frequency antennas for radio astronomy

MJ Bentum, CJM Verhoeven… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ris.utwente.nl
New interesting astronomical science drivers for very low frequency radio astronomy have
emerged, ranging from studies of the astronomical dark ages, the epoch of reionization …

Signal processing aspects of the low frequency array

AW Gunst, MJ Bentum - 2007 IEEE International Conference on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the Northern part of the Netherlands ASTRON is building the largest radio telescope in the
world for low frequencies. The telescope is based on phased array principles and is known …

Distributed correlators for interferometry in space

RT Rajan, M Bentum, A Gunst… - 2013 IEEE Aerospace …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
New and interesting science drivers have triggered a renewed interest in radio astronomy at
ultra long wavelengths. However, at longer wavelengths (beyond 10 meters) ground-based …

A satellite swarm for radio astronomy

E Dekens, S Engelen, R Noomen - Acta Astronautica, 2014 - Elsevier
At present the celestial sky has been mapped in considerable detail for every major
wavelength band, except for the ultra-long radiowave band. A space-based interferometer …

Lofar: the first of a new generation of radio telescopes

M de Vos - … .(ICASSP'05). IEEE International Conference on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) opens a previously largely unexplored frequency
domain for challenging radio-astronomical research. At the 10 to 240 MHz operating …