Astro2020 Activities and Projects White Paper: Arecibo Observatory in the Next Decade
Abstract
The white paper discusses Arecibo Observatory's plan for facility improvements and activities over the next decade. The facility improvements include: (a) improving the telescope surface, pointing and focusing to achieve superb performance up to ~12.5 GHz; (b) equip the telescope with ultrawide-band feeds; (c) upgrade the instrumentation with a 4 GHz bandwidth high dynamic range digital link and a universal backend and (d) augment the VLBI facility by integrating the 12m telescope for phase referencing. These upgrades to the Arecibo telescope are critical to keep the national facility in the forefront of research in radio astronomy while maintaining its dominance in radar studies of near-Earth asteroids, planets and satellites. In the next decade, the Arecibo telescope will play a synergistic role with the upcoming facilities such as ngVLA, SKA and the now commissioned FAST telescope. Further, the observatory will be actively engaged in mentoring and training programs for students from a diverse background.
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@article{arxiv.1907.06052,
title = {Astro2020 Activities and Projects White Paper: Arecibo Observatory in the Next Decade},
author = {D. Anish Roshi and L. D. Anderson and E. Araya and D. Balser and W. Brisken and C. Brum and D. Campbell and S. Chatterjee and E. Churchwell and J. Condon and J. Cordes and F. Cordova and Y. Fernandez and J. Gago and T. Ghosh and P. F. Goldsmith and C. Heiles and D. Hickson and B. Jeffs and K. M. Jones and J. Lautenbach and B. M. Lewis and R. S. Lynch and P. K. Manoharan and S. Marshall and R. Minchin and N. T. Palliyaguru and B. B. P. Perera and P. Perillat and N. Pinilla-Alonso and D. J. Pisano and L. Quintero and S. Raizada and S. M. Ransom and F. O. Fernandez-Rodriguez and C. J. Salter and P. Santos and M. Sulzer and P. A. Taylor and F. C. F. Venditti and A. Venkataraman and A. K. Virkki and A. Wolszczan and M. Womack and L. F. Zambrano-Marin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06052},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Submitted as an Activities and Projects White Paper for the Astro2020 decadal survey (13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table)