EMBRACE (telescope)

EMBRACE

Part of	Square Kilometre Array
Location(s)	France, Netherlands, France, Netherlands
Telescope style	radio telescope
Website	satorchi.net/skads/embrace64.php

EMBRACE (Electronic MultiBeam Radio Astronomy ConcEpt) is a prototype radio telescope for phase two of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. It's the first dense phased array for radioastronomy in the GHz frequency range (initially planned for covering the 0.5-1.5 GHz, mid-frequency band of SKA). It is composed of two sites, one at the Nançay radio telescope station in France, and one near the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope antennas in Netherlands.

References

• Torchinsky, S. A.; Olofsson, A. O. H.; Censier, B.; Karastergiou, A.; Serylak, M.; Picard, P.; Renaud, P.; Taffoureau, C. (2016), "Characterization of a dense aperture array for radio astronomy", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 589: A77, arXiv:1602.07976, Bibcode:2016A&A...589A..77T, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526706, S2CID 73565537
• Torchinsky, S.A.; et al. (2013). "Characterization and Initial Results with EMBRACE". In L. Cambrésy; F. Martins; E. Nuss; A. Palacios (eds.). Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (PDF). p. 439. Bibcode:2013sf2a.conf..439T.

External links

• http://satorchi.net/skads/embrace64.php
• https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020648/http://www.astron.nl/r-d-laboratory/ska/embrace/embrace