TY - JOUR
T1 - An ultra-wide bandwidth (704 to 4032 MHz) receiver for the Parkes radio telescope
AU - Hobbs, George
AU - Manchester, Richard N.
AU - Dunning, Alex
AU - Jameson, Andrew
AU - Roberts, Paul
AU - George, Daniel
AU - Green, J. A.
AU - Tuthill, John
AU - Toomey, Lawrence
AU - Kaczmarek, Jane F.
AU - Mader, Stacy
AU - Marquarding, Malte
AU - Ahmed, Azeem
AU - Amy, Shaun W.
AU - Bailes, Matthew
AU - Beresford, Ron
AU - Bhat, N. D. R.
AU - Bock, Douglas C.- J.
AU - Bourne, Michael
AU - Bowen, Mark
AU - Brothers, Michael
AU - Cameron, Andrew D.
AU - Carretti, Ettore
AU - Carter, Nick
AU - Castillo, Santy
AU - Chekkala, Raj
AU - Cheng, Wan
AU - Chung, Yoon
AU - Craig, Daniel A.
AU - Dai, Shi
AU - et al., null
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We describe an ultra-wide-bandwidth, low-frequency receiver recently installed on the Parkes radio telescope. The receiver system provides continuous frequency coverage from 704 to 4032 MHz. For much of the band (∼60%), the system temperature is approximately 22 K and the receiver system remains in a linear regime even in the presence of strong mobile phone transmissions. We discuss the scientific and technical aspects of the new receiver, including its astronomical objectives, as well as the feed, receiver, digitiser, and signal processor design. We describe the pipeline routines that form the archive-ready data products and how those data files can be accessed from the archives. The system performance is quantified, including the system noise and linearity, beam shape, antenna efficiency, polarisation calibration, and timing stability.
AB - We describe an ultra-wide-bandwidth, low-frequency receiver recently installed on the Parkes radio telescope. The receiver system provides continuous frequency coverage from 704 to 4032 MHz. For much of the band (∼60%), the system temperature is approximately 22 K and the receiver system remains in a linear regime even in the presence of strong mobile phone transmissions. We discuss the scientific and technical aspects of the new receiver, including its astronomical objectives, as well as the feed, receiver, digitiser, and signal processor design. We describe the pipeline routines that form the archive-ready data products and how those data files can be accessed from the archives. The system performance is quantified, including the system noise and linearity, beam shape, antenna efficiency, polarisation calibration, and timing stability.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:64059
U2 - 10.1017/pasa.2020.2
DO - 10.1017/pasa.2020.2
M3 - Article
SN - 1323-3580
VL - 37
JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
M1 - e012
ER -