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Sub-millimetre analysis of a compact test range for Planck application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2002

J. Brossard
Affiliation:
Alcatel Space Industries, 100 Bd. du midi, 06156 Cannes Cedex, France C.E.S.R, 9 avenue du Colonel Roche, 31400 Toulouse, France
D. Dubruel
Affiliation:
Alcatel Space Industries, 100 Bd. du midi, 06156 Cannes Cedex, France
B. Buralli
Affiliation:
Alcatel Space Industries, 100 Bd. du midi, 06156 Cannes Cedex, France
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Abstract

Compact Antenna Test-Ranges (CATR) represent a high standard of state-of-the-art test facilities with a fast and real time measurement capability up to the sub-millimeter range. Future scientific observation instruments of ESA such as the Planck and Herschel telescopes are working within this frequency ranges and require a high measurement accuracy for large antenna apertures. This present paper shows the first modelling of a large CATR at millimetre frequency. The software used in this paper is GRASP8 (from TICRA), and specially the recent Multi-Reflector Geometrical Theory of Diffraction upgrade (MR-GTD thereafter).

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Research Article
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2002

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