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Millimetre Wavelength performance of the new 16.7m surface of the Parkes Radio Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D. E. Yabsley*
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney

Extract

A new surface installed recently over the central 16.7-m-diameter zone of the 64-m radio telescope at Parkes has extended the operating range of this instrument to millimetre wavelengths.

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Contributions
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1977

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