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RFI Survey for the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

G. Swarup  and
T.L. Venkatasubramani
G. Swarup
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, TIFR Centre, P.O. Box 1234, I.I.Sc. Campus, Bangalore 560 012, India
T.L. Venkatasubramani
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, TIFR Centre, P.O. Box 1234, I.I.Sc. Campus, Bangalore 560 012, India

Abstract

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A Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is being set up at Khodad about 80 km north of Pune in India for operation in the frequency range of about 30 to 1500 MHz. It is to be completed by 1992 and is being designed to investigate many outstanding problems in the fields of galactic and extragalactic astronomy. We present here measurements of man-made radio frequency interference (RFI) conducted at the GMRT site in 1985 and 1988. It is seen that highly sensitive radio astronomy observations can still be made at selected bands in the above frequency range because of the relatively low level of RFI in India. However, this advantage may not remain for more than a decade or two.

Type
Radio Frequency Interference
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 112: Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris , 1991 , pp. 190 - 193
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991

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