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The half-intensity diameter of the antenna beam was about 9', and the angle subtended by the moon included the entire main beam and part of the first side lobes.
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The half-intensity diameter of the main lobe of the antenna was about 18'.5, and the brightness temperature was reduced by assuming a Gaussian shape for the antenna beam and a uniformly bright disk for the moon.
half-intensity and .
J2144-3933 is notable for other reasons: its mean pulse profile is very narrow in comparison to the pulse period with a half-intensity width of less than one degree of longitude.
diameter and antenna
In the observations at 4.3 mm ( Coates, 1959 ), the diameter of the antenna beam, 6'.7, was small enough to allow resolution of some of the larger features of the lunar surface, and contour diagrams have been made of the lunar brightness distribution at three lunar phases.
A 116. 8 cm diameter high-gain parabolic antenna was mounted at the top of the frame as well.
The beam has to have a large diameter so that only a small portion of the beam misses the sail due to diffraction and the laser or microwave antenna has to have a good pointing stability so that the craft can tilt its sails fast enough to follow the center of the beam.
Uplink was via S band A two-axis steerable high-gain parabolic dish antenna with a diameter of approximately 1. 5 m was attached at one edge of the orbiter base, and a fixed low-gain antenna extended from the top of the bus.
The microwave radiometer, the infrared radiometer and the radiometer reference horns were rigidly mounted to a 48 cm diameter parabolic radiometer antenna mounted near the bottom of the mast.
A conical superstructure mounted on top of the frame held the high-gain 1 meter diameter parabolic antenna and four solar panels, each measuring 215 x, were affixed to the top corners of the frame.
A microwave radiometer and an infrared radiometer and the radiometer reference horns were rigidly mounted to a 48 cm diameter parabolic radiometer antenna mounted near the bottom of the mast.
The beam divergence of an electromagnetic beam is an angular measure of the increase in beam diameter or radius with distance from the optical aperture or antenna aperture from which the electromagnetic beam emerges.
The angular resolution of a dish style antenna is determined by the diameter of the dish expressed as a number of wavelengths of the electromagnetic radiation being observed.
The largest single-dish radio telescope in Europe is the 100-meter diameter antenna in Effelsberg, Germany, which also was the world's largest fully steerable telescope for 30 years until the slightly larger Green Bank Telescope was opened in West Virginia, United States, in 2000.
This creates a combined telescope that is equivalent in resolution ( though not in sensitivity ) to a single antenna whose diameter is equal to the spacing of the antennas furthest apart in the array.
The diagram at the right shows the high-gain antenna ( HGA ) with a 3. 66 meter diameter attached to the hollow decagonal electronics container.
Communications were through a fixed 0. 45 m diameter high-gain antenna designed to support data rates greater than 100 kbit / s at encounters.
Communications were via a 10 W transmitter and the directional 1 m diameter high gain antenna for transmission of photographs and a 0. 5 W transmitter and omnidirectional low gain antenna for other communications.
The antenna uses a microwave lens 560 km in diameter, would transmit 56 GW of power, and would accelerate the probe to 10 % of the speed of light.
He submitted a proposal to Bell Labs to build a 30 meter diameter dish antenna with greater sensitivity that would allow more careful measurements of the structure and strength of the radio emission.
As Huygens was too small to transmit directly to Earth, it was designed to transmit the telemetry data obtained while descending through Titan's atmosphere to Cassini by radio, which would in turn relay it to Earth using its large 4-meter diameter main antenna.
It turns out that the amount of reactance seen at the terminals of a resonant antenna when the frequency is shifted, say, by 5 %, depends very much on the diameter of the conductor used.
in terms of terms of ratio of antenna length or diameter, to wavelength.
The reflector is a metallic surface formed into a paraboloid of revolution and usually truncated in a circular rim that forms the diameter of the antenna.
diameter and beam
Very recently, observations have been made at 8-mm wave length with a reflector 22 meters in diameter with a resultant beam width of only about 2' ( Amenitskii, Noskova, and Salomonovich, 1960 ).
and the magnification of beam diameter at the interface, m,
The beam in the cavity and the output beam of the laser, when travelling in free space ( or a homogenous medium ) rather than waveguides ( as in an optical fiber laser ), can be approximated as a Gaussian beam in most lasers ; such beams exhibit the minimum divergence for a given diameter.
The beam of a single transverse mode ( gaussian beam ) laser eventually diverges at an angle which varies inversely with the beam diameter, as required by diffraction theory.
The electron beam can focused to a spot approximately 1 nanometer in diameter, and microscopes are able to resolve details ranging from 1 – 20 nm in size.
The electron beam, which typically has an energy ranging from 0. 2 keV to 40 keV, is focused by one or two condenser lenses to a spot about 0. 4 nm to 5 nm in diameter.
Provided the electron gun can generate a beam with sufficiently small diameter, a SEM could in principle work entirely without condenser or objective lenses, although it might not be very versatile or achieve very high resolution.
A small pellet of fusion fuel ( with a diameter of a couple of millimeters ) would be ignited by an electron beam or a laser.
The beam diameter or beam width of an electromagnetic beam is the diameter along any specified line that is perpendicular to the beam axis and intersects it.
diameter and was
This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.
This, however, can only be considered approximate, as the diameter of the pulley was increased by the build-up of tape and the tape was occasionally removed from the pulley during the runs.
The diameter of this bronchial artery was much too large for it to be a mere vasa vasorum ( figs. 16, 23, 24 ).
It was observed that EWC macromolecules are the same diameter ( 15 a. ) but much longer ( up to several microns ) than vertebrate tropocollagen.
Apus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35 cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.
The mission's specific landing site was located between two young impact craters, North and South Ray craters — and in diameter, respectively — which provided " natural drill holes " which penetrated through the lunar regolith at the site, thus leaving exposed bedrock that could be sampled by the crew.
" Fifty stadia 6 mi from the coast was a mountain that was low on all sides ... broke it off all round about ... the central island itself was five stades in diameter 0. 92 km ; 0. 57 mi.
The angular diameter of Altair was measured interferometrically by R. Hanbury Brown and his co-workers at Narrabri Observatory in the 1960s.
It was 4. 3 meters ( 14 ft ) in diameter and constructed of aluminum aircraft tubing and a vinyl-plastic skin, in the form of an icosahedron.
He found that material was scattered over an area in diameter, and in addition to military and nautical equipment recovered a large number of gold and silver coins from countries across the Mediterranean, some from the seventeenth century.
In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.
The large girth of Blue Steel was determined by the implosion sphere diameter of Green Bamboo.
A seven-person project group was formed to develop an optical audio disc with a diameter of 20 cm with a sound quality superior to that of the large and vulnerable vinyl record.
Rather than the original 20 cm size, the diameter of this compact disc was set at 11. 5 cm, the diagonal measurement of a compact cassette.
These thin pieces were then pulled through a draw plate repeatedly until the desired diameter was achieved.
The comet was later observed as a series of fragments ranging up to in diameter.
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