EMBRACE System Engineering and Astronomical Test Plan SKADS: DS5T3
Creators: name: Torchinsky, S.A.
name: Olofsson, A.O.H.
name: Chemin, L.
name: Strom, R.
name: Picard, P.
name: Martin, J.M.
name: Stappers, B.
name: Bregman, J.
name: Ebbendorf, N.
name: Cognard, I.
name: Colom, P.
name: Kant, G.W.
name: Renaud, P.
name: Ruiter, M.
name: Taffoureau, C.
name: van der Marel, H.
name: van der Wal, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: phased array
radioastronomy
aperture array
square kilometre array

description: This document outlines the test plan for EMBRACE as a system. It is assumed that basic electronic checkout of EMBRACE tiles has been done, and the experiments described here are done in the final EMBRACE location, with some subset of the full system. It is useful to do these tests even with a single EMBRACE tile,setup at the EMBRACE location in Westerbork or Nancay, for testing system operations and correlation with Westerbork.
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