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Wuensche, C. A.
[1]
;
Reitano, L.
[1]
;
Peel, M. W.
[2, 3, 4]
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Browne, I. W. A.
[5]
;
Maffei, B.
[6]
;
Abdalla, E.
[2]
;
Radcliffe, C.
[7]
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Abdalla, F.
[8]
;
Barosi, L.
[9]
;
Liccardo, V
[1]
;
Mericia, E.
[1]
;
Pisano, G.
[10]
;
Strauss, C.
[1]
;
Vieira, F.
[1]
;
Villela, T.
[11, 1]
;
Wang, B.
[12]
Total Authors: 16
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| Affiliation: Show less - | [1] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais INPE, Div Astrofis, Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP - Brazil
[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
[3] Inst Astrofis Canarias, E-38205 Tenerife - Spain
[4] Univ La Laguna ULL, Dept Astrofis, E-38206 Tenerife - Spain
[5] Univ Manchester, Jodrell Bank Ctr Astrophys, Sch Nat Sci, Dept Phys & Astron, Alan Turing Bldg, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs - England
[6] Univ Paris Sud Paris Saclay, Inst Astrophys Spatiale, F-91405 Orsay - France
[7] Phase2 Microwave Ltd, Unit, Boulton Rd, Pin Green Ind Est, Stevenage SG1 4QX, Herts - England
[8] UCL, Dept Phys, Astron, Gower Pl, London WC1E 6BT - England
[9] Univ Fed Campina Grande, Unidade Acad Fis, Campina Grande, Paraiba - Brazil
[10] Cardiff Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, Cardiff CF10 3AT - Wales
[11] Univ Brasilia, Inst Fis, Brasilia, DF - Brazil
[12] Yangzhou Univ, Ctr Gravitat & Cosmol, Yangzhou 225009, Jiangsu - Peoples R China
Total Affiliations: 12
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY; v. 50, n. 1 JUL 2020. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
The Baryon acoustic oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations (BINGO) telescope is a 40-m class radio telescope under construction that has been designed to measure the large-angular-scale intensity of Hi emission at 980-1260 MHz and hence to constrain dark energy parameters. A large focal plane array comprising of 1.7-metre diameter, 4.3-metre length corrugated feed horns is required in order to optimally illuminate the telescope. Additionally, very clean beams with low sidelobes across a broad frequency range are required, in order to facilitate the separation of the faint Hi emission from bright Galactic foreground emission. Using novel construction methods, a full-sized prototype horn has been assembled. It has an average insertion loss of around - 0.15 dB across the band, with a return loss around 25 dB. The main beam is Gaussian with the first sidelobe at around - 25 dB. A septum polariser to separate the signal into the two hands of circular polarization has also been designed, built and tested. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/02026-0 - Development and characterization of the BINGO Telescope instrumentation |
| Grantee: | Vincenzo Liccardo |
| Support type: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/07885-0 - The BINGO telescope: a new 21 cm window for exploring the dark universe and other astrophysics |
| Grantee: | Elcio Abdalla |
| Support type: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/19936-1 - BINGO: an ultra-sensitive survey of hydrogen and radio continuum emission to measure the dark universe |
| Grantee: | Michael William Peel |
| Support type: | Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants |