The FST-A 20 arc second Synthesis Telescope

I. Gwyn Jones, A. Watkinson, P. C. Egau, T. M. Percival, David Skellern, G. R. Graves

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Abstract

The baseline of East-West array of the Fleurs Synthesis Telescope (FST) has been extended from 786 metres to 1585 metres by the addition of two 13.7 metre dishes. A digital receiver has been built to accommodate the extra delay and correlation requirements, low noise FET preamplifiers have been installed on the large antennas, and a software package has been developed for processing observation data on a VAX 11/780. The FST is now capable of producing accurate wide field maps at 1415 MHz with a resolution of 20 arc seconds and a sensitivity of several milliJansky.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)574-578
Number of pages5
JournalProceedings astronomical society of australia
Volume5
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1984
Externally publishedYes

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