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Memo 122

The Aperture Arrays for the SKA: the

SKADS White Paper

The SKADS Team

System Group:

Andrew Faulkner (Chair) D

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Paul Alexander telio Montebugnoli

Arnold van Ardenne hilippe Picard

Rosie Bolton teve Rawlings

Jaap Bregman teve Torchinsky

Andre van Es an Geralt bij de Vaate

Mike Jones eter Wilkinson

April 2010

www.skatelescope.org/pages/page_memos.htm

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Project supported by the

European Commission

Contract no. 011938

DS8_T1:

Aperture Arrays for

the SKA

Doc.nr.:

Rev.: 1.00

Date: 26 April 2010

Class.: Public

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Distribution list:

Group: Others:

DS-Manager

Task Leaders

SKADS-MT

SKADS Project Office

Document history:

Revision Date Chapter / Page Modification / Change

0.91 18/3/2010 - First Draft release onto SKADS website

0.92

AA noise budget

SKA target technologies

Data switch discussion

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