Giant Equatorial Radio Telescope

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Feb 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984ap%26ss..99..403s&link_type=abstract

(International Astronomical Union, Colloquium on Double Stars, Physical Properties and Generic Relations, 80th, Bandung, Indones

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Design Analysis, Radio Telescopes, Developing Nations, Interplanetary Medium, Pulsars, Radio Sources (Astronomy), Very High Frequencies

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The proposed Giant Equatorial Radio Telescope (GERT) is described. GERT's design includes an antenna consisting of a 2 km long and 50 km wide parabolic cylinder; a reflecting surface consisting of a stainless steel wire mesh; frequencies of 325 and 38 MHz; a multichannel digital delay line system; a digital correlator (1722 channels) system, and a synthesis radio telescope with a 14 x 12 km area around GERT. Study objectives include occultation observations of extragalactic radio sources with a resolution of about 0.1 to 0.5 arcsec, the energetics and evolution of radio galaxies, the evolutionary trend of hot spots, lunar occultation observations for fine-structure studies on galactic radio sources, and the study of regions near the sun or at high ecliptic latitudes. GERT will be able to survey 40,000 radio sources within 24 hours and is also expected to locate at least 400 new pulsars.

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