20–27 Mar 2026
Wild View Resorts
Africa/Gaborone timezone

TART Array Layout Optimization

24 Mar 2026, 11:00
15m
Wild View Resorts

Wild View Resorts

Plot 80 President Avenue, Kasane, Botswana
In-person - Talk 2 Instrumentation Science & Engineering

Speaker

Timothy Molteno (University of Otago)

Description

A new method for optimizing the layout of radio telescope antenna arrays will be presented. These methods are are based on the SVD of the telescope operator, and provide a flexible method for choosing optimal antenna positions. The method is applied to choosed antenna positions for the TART telescope, and this has led to the latest spiral antenna designs used in the African TART telescopes in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia and Zambia.

Stream Science or Engineering

Primary author

Timothy Molteno (University of Otago)

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