LOFAR Acquisition Capabilities in Beamforming mode

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 (1)

Name: ReceiverBeamVoltage
Observed Property: EM-Wave_ElectricFieldStrength
Dimensionality Instance: 1D
Dimensionality Timeline: 2DTimeseriesStacked
Cadence: Every 5.12e-06 seconds
Units: count

Instrument Mode Pair

Instrument: Instrument_LOFAR_station
Mode: Instrument_LOFAR_station#beamforming

Input Parameters

BeamDirection: In its beamforming mode, LOFAR controls the direction of the beam.
FrequencyChannels: TODO
TimeResolution: TODO
AntennaSelection: TODO

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Editor	Astron
Version	1
Created	Wednesday 11th Oct. 2023, 17:30
Last Modified	Wednesday 18th Oct. 2023, 10:30