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We present the phase characteristics study of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) long (up to 3 km) baseline, which is the longest baseline tested so far using ALMA. The data consist of long time-scale (10 - 20 minutes)…

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At frequencies below 1 Hz, fluctuations in atmospheric emission in the Chajnantor region in northern Chile are the primary source of interference for bolometric millimeter-wave observations. This paper focuses on characterizing these…

Further analysis has been made on the millimeter and submillimeter-wave (100-1600 GHz or 3 mm - 188 micron) atmospheric opacity data taken with the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) at Pampa la Bola, 4800 m above sea level in northern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Satoki Matsushita , Hiroshi Matsuo

We discuss the effect of atmospheric dispersion on the performance of a mid-infrared adaptive optics assisted instrument on an extremely large telescope (ELT). Dispersion and atmospheric chromaticity is generally considered to be negligible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Kendrew , L. Jolissaint , R. J. Mathar , R. Stuik , S. Hippler , B. Brandl

Computation of propagation effects in the neutral atmosphere, namely path delay, extinction, and bending angle is a trivial task provided the 4D state of the atmosphere is known. Unfortunately, the mixing ratio of water vapor is highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-25 Leonid Petrov

Observations at millimetre wavelengths provide a valuable tool to study the small scale dynamics in the solar chromosphere. We evaluate the physical conditions of the atmosphere in the presence of a propagating shock wave and link that to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Henrik Eklund , Sven Wedemeyer , Ben Snow , David B. Jess , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Samuel D. T. Grant , Mats Carlsson , Mikolaj Szydlarski

Atmospheric dispersion introduces wavelength-dependent effects that significantly impact ground-based observations, particularly in slit- and fibre-fed spectroscopic studies. These effects reduce the signal entering the spectrograph and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Manjunath Bestha , Sivarani Thirupathi , Athira Unni , Parvathy M , Devika Divakar

For the submillimeter band observations, we have been routinely adopting the calibration cycle time of 20-30 minutes, which is the same as any typical centimeter and millimeter band observations. This cycle time, largely corrects only the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-04 Dharam Vir Lal , Satoki Matsushita , Jeremy Lim

We present the results of models that were designed to study all possible water maser transitions in the frequency range 0-1.91THz, with particular emphasis on maser transitions that may be generated in evolved-star envelopes and observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-19 M. D. Gray , A. Baudry , A. M. S. Richards , E. M. L. Humphreys , A. M. Sobolev , J. A. Yates

Significant progress in manipulating heat diffusion has been achieved with the advent of non-Hermitian physics and topology. However, previous studies on diffusive systems have primarily concentrated on isolated cases, where fields decay…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Dong Wang , Pei-Chao Cao , Yanxiang Wang , Minghong Qi , Ran Ju , Hongsheng Chen , Chengwei Qiu , Ying Li

Recent three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations by Wedemeyer et al. (2004) suggest that the solar chromosphere is highly structured in space and time on scales of only 1000 km and 20-25 sec, resp.. The resulting pattern consists…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Wedemeyer-Boehm , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Steffen , B. Freytag , H. Holweger

The electromagnetic wave propagation velocity at low radio frequencies is an important input parameter for lightning location systems that use time of arrival (TOA) method. This velocity is normally fixed at or near the speed of light.…

We analyze the frequency dependence of the dispersion measure (DM), the column density of free electrons to a pulsar, caused by multipath scattering from small scale electron-density fluctuations. The DM is slightly different along each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon , D. R. Stinebring

Phase modulation has scarcely been mentioned in diffusive systems since the diffusion process does not carry momentum like waves. Recently, the non-Hermitian physics provides a new perspective for understanding diffusion and shows prospects…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Pei-Chao Cao , Ran Ju , Dong Wang , Minghong Qi , Yun-Kai Liu , Yu-Gui Peng , Hongsheng Chen , Xue-Feng Zhu , Ying Li

Phase referencing is a standard calibration procedure in radio interferometry. It allows to detect weak sources by using quasi-simultaneous observations of closeby sources acting as calibrators. Therefore, it is assumed that, for each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-25 I. Marti-Vidal , J. C. Guirado , S. Jimenez-Monferrer , J. M. Marcaide

A diverse array of science goals require accurate flux calibration of observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter array (ALMA), however, this goal remains challenging due to the stochastic time-variability of the ``grid''…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Logan Francis , Doug Johnstone , Gregory Herczeg , Todd R. Hunter , Daniel Harsono

Differential atmospheric dispersion is a wavelength-dependent effect introduced by the atmosphere. It is one of the instrumental errors that can affect the position of the target as perceived on the sky and its flux distribution. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Bachar Wehbe , Alexandre Cabral , Jorge Martins , Pedro Figueira , Nuno Santos , Gerardo Ávila

Substantial growth of demand for mobile data and rapidly increasing spread of personal communication devices such as smart phones and tablets is the major challenge faced by the mobile service providers in recent years. The allotted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-15 Pavithra Nagaraj

Wavefront of light passing through turbulent atmosphere gets distorted. This causes signal loss in free-space optical communication as the light beam spreads and wanders at the receiving end. Frequency and/or time division multiplexing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Kai Sum Chan , H. F. Chau

We conducted the observational tests of a phase correction scheme for the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) of the Atacama Large Millimeter and submillimeter Array (ALMA) using the Submillimeter Array (SMA). Interferometers at millimeter- and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Satoki Matsushita , Yu-Lin Chen