Cost Effective Designs For Next-Generation Radio TelescopesG B Raghavkrishna, Deeptangshu Banik, B Ravi Kumar, D Veeraswamyhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22398
Cost Effective Designs For Next-Generation Radio TelescopesRadio astronomy has entered its golden era, with many revolutionary facilities such as SKA, ngVLA, and LOFAR2.0 coming online in the next decade. These facilities are certain to redefine radio astronomy. However, on smaller scales-such as at institutional or amateur levels-radio astronomy is still mostly practiced for educational or personal interest. The primary reason small-scale radio astronomical experiments rarely produce cutting-edge scientific results is the limitation of funding availab…