Development of the cryogenic 2–14 GHz Eleven feed system for VLBI2010

We present an overview of the recent developments of a cryogenic 2-14 GHz feed system for the Very Long Baseline Interferometry 2010 (VLBL2010) project. The developments include a new balun feeding network, a new circular Eleven feed, system noise temperature modeling and testing, integration with different low noise amplifiers (LNAs), and cryostat design and integration.

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