LOFAR Acquisition Capabilities in Beamforming mode
Last modified at Oct 18th, 2023, 10:30 GMT
Description
Individually sampled quadrature components of received voltage in each channel of the array are coherently summed with phase shifting to form a beam in the given direction. The receiver voltages are sampled within a broad band that is split in sub-bands for individual processing and report. Effectively, LOFAR in this operational mode behaves as a large set of receivers operating in different subbands.
Capabilities
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ReceiverBeamVoltage
- Observed Property
- Dimensionality Instance
- Dimensionality Timeline
- Cadence
- Every 5.12e-06 seconds
- Units
Instrument Mode Pair
- Instrument
- Mode
Input Parameters
- BeamDirection
- In its beamforming mode, LOFAR controls the direction of the beam.
- FrequencyChannels
- TODO
- TimeResolution
- TODO
- AntennaSelection
- TODO
Further Information and Resources
Resources
| Editor | Astron |
| Version | 1 |
| Created | Wednesday 11th Oct. 2023, 17:30 |
| Last Modified | Wednesday 18th Oct. 2023, 10:30 |