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Table 1
Requirements presented in Battye et al. (2013) for the BINGO telescope.
| Requirement | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| (i) | Angular resolution | 40 arcmin |
| (ii) | Operating frequency | 960–1260 MHz |
| (iii) | Frequency resolution | ≳1 MHz |
| (iv) | Frequency baseline as free as Possible from instrumental ripples | |
| (v) | Exceptionally stable receivers | |
| (vi) | Sky coverage | >2000 deg2 |
| (vii) | Number of feeds | >50 |
| (viii) | Sidelobe levels as low as possible | |
| (ix) | Beam ellipticity | <0.1 |
| (x) | No moving parts | |
| (xi) | Projected aperture diameter of the primary reflector | 40m |
| (xii) | Minimum number of pixels in the focal plane Each of them satisfying: | 50 |
| (xii)–(a) | Forward gain-loss in Comparison to central pixel | <1 dB |
| (xii)–(b) | Cross-polarization better than | −30 dB |
| (xii)–(c) | Beam ellipticity | <0.l |
| (xiii) | Focal length | 90m |
| (xiv) | Instantaneous field of view | 10° × 9° |
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