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A new spectrometer for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is being built jointly by the NRAO and the CASPER, University of California, Berkeley. The spectrometer uses 8 bit ADCs and will be capable of processing up to 1.25 GHz bandwidth from 8…

The Atacama Large (sub-)millimeter Array (ALMA) has been in scientific operations for almost 15 years. We celebrate this achievement by providing a summary of the ``Disks and planet formation'' scientific category, with an emphasis on the…

The specifications of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have placed stringent requirements on the mechanical performance of its antennas. As part of the evaluation process of the VertexRSI and Alcatel EIE Consortium (AEC) ALMA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 A. Greve , J. G. Mangum

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is a 6 m telescope located in the Atacama Desert, designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with arcminute resolution. ACT, with its third generation polarization sensitive array,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Patricio A. Gallardo , Nicholas F. Cothard , Roberto Puddu , Rolando Dünner , Brian J. Koopman , Michael D. Niemack , Sara M. Simon , Edward J. Wollack

High-frequency long-baseline experiments with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array were organized to test the high angular resolution imaging capabilities in the submillimeter wave regime using baselines up to 16 km. Four…

The transmitter signals in the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks suffer from significant path loss due to the use of higher frequencies in Sub-6 GHz and millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands. Therefore, beamforming is an essential and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Md Imrul Hasan , Mohammad Saquib

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array remains the largest mm radio interferometer observatory world-wide. It is now conducting its 11th observing cycle. In our previous paper presented at this conference series in 2020, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Dirk Petry , María Díaz Trigo , Rüdiger Kneissl , Ignacio Toledo , Atsushi Miyazaki , Toshinobu Takagi , Ashley Barnes , Francesca Bonanomi

It has been widely acknowledged that Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) in the submillimeter wavelengths can make imaging observations of super massive black holes possible. The Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA) along with the James Clerk…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-23 Vinayak Nagpal

This paper investigates multi-mode and orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode data transmission techniques by a using a circular antenna array, operating at 28 GHz. The classical mode excitation of the latter is modified such that in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Stylianos D. Assimonis , M. Ali Babar Abbasi , Vincent Fusco

In a high-speed coherent optical transmission system, typically the signals obtained at the receiver front-end are digitized using very high-speed ADCs and then processed in the digital domain to remove optical channel impairments. In this…

Planar Fourier capture arrays (PFCAs) are optical sensors built entirely in standard microchip manufacturing flows. PFCAs are composed of ensembles of angle sensitive pixels (ASPs) that each report a single coefficient of the Fourier…

This paper considers the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation of coherent signals on passive coprime arrays, where we resort to the fourth-order cumulants of the received signal to explore more information. A fourth-order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Yang Hu , Yimin Liu , Xiqin Wang

Fluctuating properties of the atmosphere, and in particular its water vapour content, give rise to phase fluctuations of astronomical signals which, if uncorrected, lead to rapid deterioration of performance of (sub)-mm interferometers on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Bojan Nikolic , Rosie C. Bolton , Sarah F. Graves , Richard E. Hills , John S. Richer

In this study, we elaborate on the concept of scalable anomalous reflector (AR) to analyze the angular response, frequency response, and spatial scalability of a designed AR across a broad range of angles and frequencies. We utilize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Le Hao , Sravan K. R. Vuyyuru , Sergei A. Tretyakov , Markus Rupp , Risto Valkonen

This paper presents the design and implementation of a compact, cost-effective phased array antenna system. It is capable of real-time beam-steering for dynamic target-tracking applications. The system employs a 4$\times$4 rectangular…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Adham Saad , Aya Sherif Nassef , Mahmoud Mohamed Elshahed , Mohamed Ismail Ahmed

Analog multiplexing appears to be a promising solution for modern transmitters, where speed is the primary limitation. The objective is the development of a low-cost solution to compare different digital to analog (DAC) schemes. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Alfredo Pérez Vega-Leal , Manuel G. Satué

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

In this paper, we present theoretical details and the underlying architecture of a hybrid optoelectronic correlator that correlates images using Spatial Light Modulators (SLM), detector arrays and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The…

New generation radio interferometers encode signals from thousands of antenna feeds across large bandwidth. Channelizing and correlating this data requires networking capabilities that can handle unprecedented data rates with reasonable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Kevin Bandura , Jean-Francois Cliche , Matt Dobbs , Adam Gilbert , David Ittah , Juan Mena Parra , Graeme Smecher

In this work, an innovative method for controlling the current distribution of the radiating patch by adjusting the input phase is investigated to achieve both pattern and polarization reconfigurable characteristics for the multifunction. A…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Guangwei Yang , Qiao Cheng , Jianying Li , Shuai Zhang , Steven Gao , Xiaodong Chen