The phase II Murchison widefield array: design overview

RB Wayth, SJ Tingay, CM Trott, D Emrich… - Publications of the …, 2018 - cambridge.org
We describe the motivation and design details of the 'Phase II'upgrade of the Murchison
Widefield Array radio telescope. The expansion doubles to 256 the number of antenna tiles …

Engineering Development Array 2: design, performance, and lessons from an SKA-Low prototype station

R Wayth, M Sokolowski, J Broderick… - Journal of …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present the Engineering Development Array 2, which is one of two instruments built as a
second generation prototype station for the future Square Kilometre Low-Frequency Array …

SKA-Low prototypes deployed in Australia: synoptic of the UAV-based experimental results

F Paonessa, L Ciorba, G Virone, P Bolli, A Magro… - 2020 - openaccess.inaf.it
As the Square Kilometre Array progresses toward the construction phase, the first prototypes
of the low-frequency instrument were deployed in Australia. To support such a crucial phase …

First results on the experimental validation of the SKA-Low prototypes deployed in Australia using an airborne test source

F Paonessa, L Ciorba, G Virone, P Bolli… - … Symposium of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the Square Kilometre Array progresses toward the construction phase, the first prototypes
of the low-frequency instrument have been deployed in Australia. To support such a crucial …

Mutual coupling analysis for a SKA1-Low station

P Di Ninni, M Bercigli, P Bolli, G Virone… - 2019 13th European …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The modelling of the antenna patterns represents one of the main challenges for the
instrumental calibration of radio telescopes composed by antennas randomly distributed. In …

Optimum mitigation of distortion induced by Rayleigh backscattering in radio-over-fiber links for the square kilometer array radio-telescope

J Nanni, A Giovannini, MU Hadi… - … Topical Meeting on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the theoretical and experimental study of unexpected distortions
induced by the Rayleigh backscattering phenomenon in Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) links within …

Challenges due to Rayleigh backscattering in radio over fibre links for the square kilometre array radio-telescope

J Nanni, A Giovannini, S Rusticelli… - 2019 21st …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the realization of the Low Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) within the Square Kilometre
Array (SKA) project, the radiofrequency (RF) signals coming from sky and celestial sources …

The signal processing chain of the Low Frequency Aperture Array

G Comoretto, J Monari, C Belli… - Ground-based and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The SKA LOW telescope is an interferometer composed of 512 stations. Each station
consists of 256 electronically steered antennas. The Low Frequency Aperture Array is the …

Design and prototyping of the Italian Tile Processing Module 1.6 (ITPM) for the low-frequency aperture array deployment

F Schillirò, M Alderighi, C Belli… - Ground-based and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A novel version of digital hardware Italian Tile Processing Module (ITPM) 1.6 has been
released for the Low-Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) component of the Square Kilometre …

Approaches towards SKAO science operations from the aperture array verification systems

JA Green, S Breen, S Goedhart, C Trott… - … , and Systems X, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Aperture Array Verification System, or AAVS, is a series of incremental proof-of-concept
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) low-frequency stations. They have been deployed at …