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The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Core Array is a proposed extension of FAST, integrating 24 secondary 40-m antennas implanted within 5 km of the FAST site. This original array design will combine the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Peng Jiang , Rurong Chen , Hengqian Gan , Jinghai Sun , Boqin Zhu , Hui Li , Weiwei Zhu , Jingwen Wu , Xuelei Chen , Haiyan Zhang , Tao An

In this paper we provide a detailed technical description of the Front-End (FE) electronics for the liquid Argon instrumentation of the LEGEND-200 experiment, searching for the very rare, hypothetical neutrinoless double $\beta$ decay…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-06 I. Abritta Costa , A. Budano , N. Burlac , F. Paissan , G. Salamanna , D. Tagnani

The sodium laser guide star adaptive optics system ALFA has been constructed at the Calar Alto 3.5-m telescope. Following the first detection of the laser beacon on the wavefront sensor in 1997 the system is now being optimized for best…

We present the first full-disk solar images obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Band 7 (0.86 mm; 347 GHz). In spite of the low spatial resolution (21"), several interesting results were obtained. During…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 C. E. Alissandrakis , T. S. Bastian , A. Nindos

Micromegas detector is a gas detector with parallel plate structure, and it consists of a conversion gap in which radiations liberate ionization electrons and a thin amplification gap. The signal of the micromegas detector consists of two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-19 Shuang. Zhou , Shengquan. Liu , Peng. Miao , Xinxin. Wang , Feng. Li , Ge. Jin , Zhilei. Zhang , Tianru. Geng

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope was designed to measure small-scale anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background and detect galaxy clusters through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. The instrument is located on Cerro Toco in the Atacama…

In December 2016, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) carried out the first regular observations of the Sun. These early observations and the reduction of the respective data posed a challenge due to the novelty and…

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make precise temperature and polarization measurements over six spectral bands ranging from 27 to 285 GHz. Three…

The CCAT-prime project's first light array will be deployed in Mod-Cam, a single-module testbed and first light cryostat, on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's high Atacama desert in late 2022. FYST is a six-meter…

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) have emerged as a pivotal technology for addressing the unprecedented performance demands of next-generation wireless communication systems. To enhance their practicality, we propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Zhengyu Wang , Tiebin Mi , Gui Zhou , Robert C. Qiu

In this paper, we propose a transmission mechanism for fluid antennas (FAs) enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems based on index modulation (IM), named FA-IM, which incorporates the principle of IM into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pengyu Gao , Pei Xiao , Zihuai Lin , Atta Quddus

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a powerful tool for high-resolution mapping of comets, but the main interferometer (comprised of 50x12-m antennas) is insensitive to the largest coma scales due to a lack of very…

We report on the first pulsar and transient survey of the Galactic Center (GC) with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The observations were conducted during the Global Millimeter VLBI Array campaign in 2017 and 2018.…

Leveraging the high resolution, high sensitivity, and wide frequency coverage of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the QUARKS survey, standing for "Querying Underlying mechanisms of massive star formation with…

The fluid antenna (FA) index modulation (IM)-enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, referred to as FA-IM, significantly enhances spectral efficiency (SE) compared to the conventional FA-assisted MIMO system. To improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinghao Guo , Yin Xu , Dazhi He , Cixiao Zhang , Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Wenjun Zhang , Yiyan Wu

This paper proposes a monostatic wideband system for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) at millimeter-wave frequencies, based on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). The system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Tommaso Bacchielli , Lorenzo Pucci , Andrea Giorgetti

The purpose of this report is to document the noise performance of a complex beamforming array antenna system and to characterize the recently developed noise measurement facility called THACO, which was developed at ASTRON. The receiver…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-14 M. V. Ivashina , E. E. M. Woestenburg , L. Bakker , R. H. Witvers

We present the first radio polarimetric observations of a fast-rising blue optical transient, AT2018cow. Two epochs of polarimetry with additional coincident photometry were performed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 K. Y. Huang , J. Shimoda , Y. Urata , K. Toma , K. Yamaoka , K. Asada , H. Nagai , S. Takahashi , G. Petitpas , M. Tashiro

A new approach was developed for the design of front-end circuits for semiconductor radiation detectors. The readout scheme consists of a first stage made of only a few components located close to the detector, and of a remote second stage…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-02 L. Cassina , C. Cattadori , A. Giachero , C. Gotti , M. Maino , G. Pessina

The very demanding requirements of the SKA-low instrument call for a challenging antenna design capable of delivering excellence performance in radiation patterns, impedance matching, polarization purity, cost, longevity, etc. This paper is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-07 E. de Lera Acedo , N. Razavi-Ghods , N. Troop , N. Drought , A. J. Faulkner