Research Article

Disk-Integrated Lunar Brightness Temperatures between 89 and 190 GHz

Table 1

Antenna performance—space view—centre frequencies (values from [8], except for the last column, where values were calculated for a point-like lunar emission and, in brackets, a of 0.4°).

ChannelGround test frequency [GHz]Beam efficiency ° (ground test) ° (Moon)

H189.30.941±0.0011.09±0.011.20(1.13)±0.02
H2157.30.997±0.0011.03±0.011.09(1.01)±0.02
H34184.30.971±0.0011.05±0.011.25(1.18)±0.01
H5190.60.961±0.0011.05±0.011.27(1.20)±0.01