Exploring Design Optimisation Techniques of a Radio Telescope Using Fixed Costing Constraints

Abstract

Cost optimization is a common problem encountered in the design of telescopes. This paper comprehensively discusses various radio telescope designs worldwide, focusing on their design and utilities. It contextualizes the Pulsar data challenge and subsequently discusses and develops a mathematical model for designing radio telescopes. The model assumes a fixed-cost budget. This paper expands current ideas of modeling the system using figure-of-merit equations and optimizing them based on a fixed budget to obtain optimal and affordable radio telescope designs.