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Multi-channel analysers (MCAs) play a crucial role in spectral measurements, especially in the context of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) used for gamma spectroscopy. Most commercial MCAs, while highly accurate, remain cost-prohibitive for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-21 P. Kučera , O. Urban , O. Růžička , M. Vítek , P. M. Stašek , R. Klesa , M. Holík , F. Ahmadov , A. Sadigov , A. Mammadli , Ch. Abbasova , O. Pavlas , T. Slavíček

After eight observing Cycles, the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) is capable of observing in eight different bands (covering a frequency range from 84 to 950 GHz), with 66 antennas and two correlators. For the current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jorge F. García Yus , Bill Dent , Drew Brisbin , Chin-Shin Chang , Laura Gómez , Theodoros Nakos

We report the use of the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to conduct polarimetric observations of the sky at 5 GHz. The ATCA is normally operated as an interferometer array, but these observations were conducted in a split array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 D. McConnell , E. Carretti , R. Subrahmanyan

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) offers new diagnostic capabilities for studying the Sun, providing complementary insights through high spatial and temporal resolution at millimeter wavelengths. ALMA acts as a linear…

The digital correlator is one of the most crucial data processing components of a radio telescope array. With the scale of radio interferometeric array growing, many efforts have been devoted to developing a cost-effective and scalable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-28 Zhao Wang , Ji-Xia Li , Ke Zhang , 1 Feng-Quan Wu , Hai-Jun Tian , Chen-Hui Niu , Ju-Yong Zhang , Zhi-Ping Chen , Dong-Jin Yu , Xue-Lei Chen

The Very Large Array is undergoing a major upgrade that will attain an order of magnitude improvement in continuum sensitivity across 1 to 50 GHz with instantaneous bandwidths up to 8 GHz in both polarizations. The new WIDAR correlator…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 Sean M. Dougherty , Rick Perley

Radio astronomical imaging arrays comprising large numbers of antennas, O(10^2-10^3) have posed a signal processing challenge because of the required O(N^2) cross correlation of signals from each antenna and requisite signal routing. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-19 J. Kocz , L. J. Greenhill , B. R. Barsdell , G. Bernardi , A. Jameson , M. A. Clark , J. Craig , D. Price , G. B. Taylor , F. Schinzel , D. Werthimer

The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) has provided us with an excellent diagnostic tool for studies of the dynamics of the Solar chromosphere, albeit through a single receiver band at one time presently. Each ALMA band…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Juan Camilo Guevara Gómez , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Sven Wedemeyer , Mikolaj Szydlarski

We present observations of the pulsar-wind nebula (PWN) region ofSNR 0540-69.3. The observations were made with the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) in Bands 4 and 6. We also add radio observations from the Australia Compact Array (ATCA) at 3…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 P. Lundqvist , N. Lundqvist , C. Vlahakis , C. -I. Björnsson , J. R. Dickel , M. Matsuura , Yu. A. Shibanov , D. A. Zyuzin , G. Olofsson

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) experiment is a 145 GHz polarimeter designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales. The ABS instrument will ship to the Atacama Desert of Chile…

Advanced ACTPol is a polarization-sensitive upgrade for the 6 m aperture Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), adding new frequencies and increasing sensitivity over the previous ACTPol receiver. In 2016, Advanced ACTPol will begin to map…

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimiter Array (ALMA) high sensitivity ($\sigma_P \simeq 0.4\,$mJy) polarimetric observations at $97.5\,$GHz (Band 3) of a complete sample of $32$ extragalactic radio sources drawn from the faint…

In 2017, an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) high-frequency long baseline campaign was organized to test image capabilities with baselines up to 16 km at submillimeter (submm) wavelengths. We investigated image qualities…

In this paper, we first propose a new design strategy of 2D $Z$-complementary array quads (2D-ZCAQs) with feasible array sizes. A 2D-ZCAQ consists of four distinct unimodular arrays satisfying zero 2D auto-correlation sums for non-trivial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shibsankar Das , Adrish Banerjee , Udaya Parampalli

The frequency-diverse array (FDA) offers a time-varying beamforming capability without the use of phase shifters. The autoscanning property is achieved by applying a frequency offset between the antennas. This paper analyzes the performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Marcin Wachowiak , André Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

This paper introduces the Fast Cross-Correlation (FCC) method for Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) Estimation for pairs of microphones on a small aperture microphone array. FCC relies on low-rank decomposition and exploits symmetry in even…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 François Grondin , Marc-Antoine Maheux , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , Jonathan Vincent , François Michaud

Optical single-short measurement of the cross-correlation function between periodic sequences is demonstrated. The sequences are encoded into the broadband ultrashort phase-shaped pulses which are mixed in the nonlinear medium with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Lev Chuntonov , Leonid Rybak , Andrey Gandman , Zohar Amitay

The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA), sited on the high desert plains of Chajnantor in Chile, has opened a new window onto solar physics in 2016 by providing continuum observations at millimeter and sub-millimeter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Timothy Bastian , Masumi Shimojo , Miroslav Barta , Stephen White , Kazumasa Iwai

We present the Engineering Development Array 2, which is one of two instruments built as a second generation prototype station for the future Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency Array. The array is comprised of 256 dual-polarization dipole…

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.…