Browsing Masters Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Natusch, Tim"
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Analysis and Optimization of the AUT 30-metre Radio Telescope: Pointing and Surface
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The purpose of this research is to analyze, evaluate and improve the current pointing performance of AUT’s 30-metre radio telescope. The telescope currently uses the "fivept" pointing procedure of the NASA Field System ... -
Characterisation of the radio noise environment in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)A methodology for the measurement of the radio frequency environment close to the radio noise floor is presented for urban, suburban and rural areas within New Zealand for the purposes of characterisation and trend monitoring ... -
Development of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) techniques in New Zealand: Array simulation, image synthesis and analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)This thesis presents the design and development of a process to model Very Long Base Line Interferometry (VLBI) aperture synthesis antenna arrays. In line with the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Institute for ... -
Dynamic scheduling and planning parallel observations on large Radio Telescope Arrays with the Square Kilometre Array in mind
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Scheduling, the task of producing a time table for resources and tasks, is well-known to be a difficult problem the more resources are involved (a NP-hard problem). This is about to become an issue in Radio astronomy as ...