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.

Ämnesord

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)

Nyckelord

radio astronomy receiver

VLBI

digital receiver

digital backends

EVN

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