The quadrature demodulation errors in broadband phased array radar will influence the performance of the broadband beamforming.Based on the broadband signal model and demodulation error model the covariance matrices of the time-domain and frequency-domain broadband beamforming in error case are derived.Through the analysis of the covariance matrix
it is found that the degrees of freedom of the interference will increase and the performance of beamforming will become worse.Consider the demodulation errors
more degrees of freedom should be provided to a real radar system.