Xuelei Chen, Feng Gao, Fengquan Wu, Yechi Zhang, Tong Wang, Weilin Liu, Dali Zou, Furen Deng, Yan Gong, Kai He, Jixia Li, Shijie Sun, Nanben Suo, Yougang Wang, Pengju Wu, Jiaqin Xu, Yidong Xu, Bin Yue, Cong Zhang, Jia Zhou, Minquan Zhou, Chenguang Zhu, Jiacong Zhu
At the Royal Society meeting in 2023, we have mainly presented our lunar orbit array concept called DSL, and also briefly introduced a concept of a lunar surface array, LARAF. As the DSL concept had been presented before, in this article, we introduce the LARAF. We propose to build an array in the far side of the Moon, with a master station which handles the data collection and processing, and 20 stations with maximum baseline of 10 km. Each station consists of 12 membrane antenna units, and the stations are connected to the master station by power line and optical fibre...
May 9, 2024: Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences