A Fast Direct Solver for Mutual Coupling Analysis of Large Arrays of Reflector Antennas
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| author | Gueuning, Quentin Acedo, Eloy de Lera Brown, Anthony Keith Fagnoni, Nicolas |
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| contents | Mutual coupling is a dominant systematic effect in dense reflector arrays, imprinting direction-dependent and frequency-dependent structure on embedded element patterns (EEPs) and currently limiting sensitivity in precision radio measurements. Accurate modelling of these effects requires full-wave simulations of structures that are electrically large at both the array and element levels, making conventional approaches computationally prohibitive. We present a Method-of-Moments (MoM) framework accelerated by a fast direct solver (FDS). The rotational symmetry of reflector dishes is exploited to efficiently compress self-interaction blocks of the impedance matrix. Mutual interactions are treated using a broadband multipole decomposition that remains efficient and accurate for closely spaced elements. We demonstrate the method on arrays of tens of reflectors from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) telescope. To scale to larger arrays, the FDS is used to construct macro-basis functions (MBFs) from a smaller representative array and embed them within a conventional MBF scheme. This allows the first computation of EEPs for the 320-element HERA core on a 128-core workstation. |
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| spellingShingle | A Fast Direct Solver for Mutual Coupling Analysis of Large Arrays of Reflector Antennas Gueuning, Quentin Acedo, Eloy de Lera Brown, Anthony Keith Fagnoni, Nicolas Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Signal Processing Mutual coupling is a dominant systematic effect in dense reflector arrays, imprinting direction-dependent and frequency-dependent structure on embedded element patterns (EEPs) and currently limiting sensitivity in precision radio measurements. Accurate modelling of these effects requires full-wave simulations of structures that are electrically large at both the array and element levels, making conventional approaches computationally prohibitive. We present a Method-of-Moments (MoM) framework accelerated by a fast direct solver (FDS). The rotational symmetry of reflector dishes is exploited to efficiently compress self-interaction blocks of the impedance matrix. Mutual interactions are treated using a broadband multipole decomposition that remains efficient and accurate for closely spaced elements. We demonstrate the method on arrays of tens of reflectors from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) telescope. To scale to larger arrays, the FDS is used to construct macro-basis functions (MBFs) from a smaller representative array and embed them within a conventional MBF scheme. This allows the first computation of EEPs for the 320-element HERA core on a 128-core workstation. |
| title | A Fast Direct Solver for Mutual Coupling Analysis of Large Arrays of Reflector Antennas |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10239 |