Characterizing the Murchison Widefield Array Beam Pattern Keywords: FEKO, Antennas, Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), Square Kilometer Array (SKA) ICRAR, Curtin University, Electromagnetics Customer Profile A precursor to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope was constructed in the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia [www.mwatelescope. org/science]. The MWA comprises of 128 tiles, each an array consisting of 16 uniformly distributed antenna elements (4×4 configuration, 1.1 m apart) as shown in Figure 1. The work presented in this case study focuses on an electronically steered phased array, where steering is achieved by introducing phase delays to each element in the array. Phased array antennas have dir

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