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Re:Revolutionary radio telescope detects bevy of fast radio ... by Yaggo on Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:49AM (#18873190)
Is it basically a phased array antenna? (for relatively low frequencies)
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Re:Revolutionary radio telescope detects bevy of fast radio ... by RedOrGreen on Thursday January 10, 2019 @10:52AM (#18874692)
It's a full interferometer, although for the pulsar and FRB modes, they are tiling the field of view with many, many phased array beams. (Yes, the computation requirements are horrendous.)
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