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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: Astron Astrophys. 2021 Jan 5;645:A37. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038701

Table 5. Half power beam width (HPBW) and efficiencies of Yebes 40m radio telescope along the Q and W bands.

Frequency (GHz) Wavelength (mm) HPBW(a) (″) η A η MB η F
Q band
32.4 9.2 54.4 0.50 ± 0.05 0.60 ± 0.06 0.92 ± 0.03
34.6 8.6 50.9 0.48 ± 0.05 0.57 ± 0.06 0.92 ± 0.03
36.9 8.1 47.8 0.46 ± 0.05 0.54 ± 0.06 0.92 ± 0.03
39.2 7.6 45.0 0.44 ± 0.04 0.52 ± 0.06 0.92 ± 0.03
41.5 7.2 42.5 0.42 ± 0.05 0.51 ± 0.06 0.93 ± 0.03
43.8 6.8 40.2 0.40 ± 0.05 0.48 ± 0.06 0.93 ± 0.03
46.1 6.5 38.2 0.39 ± 0.06 0.47 ± 0.07 0.92 ± 0.03
48.4 6.2 36.4 0.36 ± 0.07 0.43 ± 0.08 0.91 ± 0.03
W band
72.5 4.1 24.3 0.19 ± 0.01 0.23 ± 0.02 0.90 ± 0.03
74.7 4.0 23.6 0.18 ± 0.01 0.22 ± 0.02 0.89 ± 0.03
77.0 3.9 22.9 0.17 ± 0.01 0.21 ± 0.02 0.88 ± 0.03
79.3 3.8 22.2 0.15 ± 0.01 0.18 ± 0.02 0.88 ± 0.03
81.6 3.7 21.6 0.14 ± 0.01 0.17 ± 0.02 0.88 ± 0.03
83.9 3.6 21.0 0.13 ± 0.02 0.16 ± 0.03 0.88 ± 0.03
86.2 3.5 20.4 0.12 ± 0.02 0.14 ± 0.03 0.88 ± 0.03
88.5 3.4 19.9 0.11 ± 0.02 0.13 ± 0.03 0.88 ± 0.03

Notes.

(a)

The HPBW is estimated as 1.14 λ/D according to the PO simulations of the illumination (Sect. 2.3.).