BRAND: A Very Wide-band Receiver for the EVN

• BRAND stands for BRoad bAND EVN, a project to build a prototype primary focus receiver with the very wide frequency range from 1.5 GHz to 15.5 GHz, to investigate secondary focus solutions, and to make a survey of the EVN telescopes in order to set the stage for equipping all EVN stations with such a receiver as soon as possible. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730562 and is a Joint Research Activity (JRA) in the RadioNet programme. We present the motivation, aims, scope and status of the project which was started on January 1st, 2017.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Annan elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

radio astronomy receiver

VLBI

digital receiver

digital backends

EVN

Publication and Content Type

kon (subject category)

vet (subject category)