Study of Cassegrain-type antenna for radio telescope

Abstract

There are many critical parameters in the design of a radio telescope, such as antenna gain and antenna resolution. In telecommunications, radar, and radio telescopes, an antenna is a very important component. There are many designs of the antenna, such as dipole array and parabolic antenna. Parabolic antennas also have many sub-reflector and antenna methods that control the radio wave, such as the Cassegrain type. A Cassegrain-type antenna is a parabolic antenna in which the feed antenna is mounted at or behind the surface of the main parabolic reflector dish. For the transmitter system, the beam of radio waves from the feed antenna illuminates the secondary reflector (sub-reflector), which reflects it back to the main reflector dish and then forward to space. The Cassegrain design is widely used in parabolic antennas, for large antennas in satellite ground stations, communication satellites, and radio telescopes. In this paper discusses the design of a Cassegrain-type antenna for radio telescope, basic calculation, diameter size of the main reflector of 20 meters, the diameter size of sub-reflector of 2.5 meters, and frequency of 22 GHz and 43 GHz.