The invention relates to a beam
gain constraint method for a
phased array receiver, and the method comprises the steps: placing the
phased array receiver in a far-field region as a receiving array, and obtaining the response of each port of the array to a reference
signal and
background noise through opening or closing a
signal generator; a beam forming
weighting coefficient is solved in combination with the steering vector and the
noise correlation matrix, a corresponding beam forming network is built, a directional diagram and
gain of each beam of the array after weighting are measured, a target
gain is selected, a corresponding scaling factor is solved in combination with the relation between the target gain and the actually measured gain of each beam, and the beam forming network is built; and correcting the
weighting coefficient of each beam by using the scaling factor, and finally achieving the purpose that the gain of each beam is constrained to the target gain. According to the method, an independent beam gain constraint unit does not need to be established, and correction of the
weighting coefficient can be realized only by using an original beam calibration
system, so that homogenization of each beam gain in a field range of the
phased array receiver is met, and convenience is provided for the phased array receiver to realize high-resolution imaging in radio astronomical observation.