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Advanced millimeter-wave software-defined array (SDA) platforms, or testbeds at affordable costs and high performance are essential for the wireless community. In this paper, we present a low-cost, portable, and programmable SDA that allows…

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We present a long-term overview of the atmospheric phase stability at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) site, using >5 years of data, that acts as the successor to the studies summarized two decades ago by Evans et al…

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The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) will be a new multi-purpose radio telescope operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz. Scientific programs include pulsars, supernova remnants, general transient searches, radio recombination lines, solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-11 G. B. Taylor , The LWA Collaboration

We discuss possibilities and improvements which could be obtained, if a phased array with a large number (N=50-100) of sub-millimeter antennas - like the planned large southern array (the former LSA, now ALMA) is used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas P. Krichbaum

We report and discuss phase-shift and phase travel time of low-frequency ({\nu} < 5.0 mHz) acoustic waves estimated within the photosphere and photosphere-chromosphere interface regions, utilizing multi-height velocities in the quiet Sun.…

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A 32 GHz bandwidth VLBI capable correlator and phased array has been designed and deployed at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Submillimeter Array (SMA). The SMA Wideband Astronomical ROACH2 Machine (SWARM) integrates two…

A modern Q-band low noise amplifier (LNA) front-end is being fitted to the 10.4 m millimeter-wave telescope at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) to support observations in the 40-50 GHz frequency range. To assess the suitability of the…

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We present a Bayesian approach to calculating the coefficients that convert the outputs of ALMA 183 GHz water-vapour radiometers into estimates of path fluctuations which can then be used to correct the observed interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 B. Nikolic

We analyze the phase offsets between RF chains of modern IEEE 802.11ac chips. We investigate both the 2.4 and 5GHz bands on a per OFDM subcarrier level. Results reveal that the phase offset between receive antennas is due to random phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Anatolij Zubow , Piotr Gawlowicz , Falko Dressler

The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) satellite, launched June 30, 2001, will produce full sky maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 5 frequency bands spanning 20 - 106 GHz. MAP contains 20 differential radiometers built with…

Using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) we have imaged for the first time the 321.226 GHz, 10_{29}-9_{36} ortho-H2O maser emission. This is also the first detection of this line in the Cepheus A high-mass star-forming region. The 22.235 GHz,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. A. Patel , S. Curil , Q. Zhang , T. K. Sridharan , P. T. P. Ho , J. M. Torrelles

The Madison AWAKE Prototype (MAP) is a high-power, high-density helicon plasma experiment. The project's main goal is to develop a scalable plasma source for use in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator as part of the AWAKE project. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-11 Marcel Granetzny , Barret Elward , Oliver Schmitz

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 first results from pilot observations using a phased array feed (PAF) mounted on the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. The observations presented here cover a frequency range from 1150 to 1480 MHz and are used to show the ability of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Tristan Reynolds , Lister Staveley-Smith , Jonghwan Rhee , Tobias Westmeier , Aaron Chippendale , Xinping Deng , Ron Ekers , Michael Kramer

In this paper, we adopt a three-stage based uplink channel estimation protocol with reduced pilot overhead for an reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) millimeter wave (mmWave) communication system, in which both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Zhendong Peng , Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Petar Popovski , Gang Wu

We have used the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland-Association (BIMA) millimeter array outfitted with sensitive cm-wave receivers to search for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies on arcminute scales. The interferometer was placed in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. L. Holzapfel , J. E. Carlstrom , L. Grego , G. Holder , M. Joy , E. D. Reese

We present an absolute distance measurement interferometer based on a two wavelength interferometer and a variable synthetic wavelength technique. The wavelength scanning range was 12 GHz, realized with a phase accuracy of 1.0 m{\lambda} by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-25 Yoshiyuki Kuramoto , Hiroshi Okuda

One key communication block in 5G and 6G radios is the active phased array (APA). To ensure reliable operation, efficient and timely fault diagnosis of APAs on-site is crucial. To date, fault diagnosis has relied on measurement of frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Martin H. Nielsen , Yufeng Zhang , Changbin Xue , Jian Ren , Yingzeng Yin , Ming Shen , Gert F. Pedersen

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) combines large collecting area and location on a high dry site to provide it with unparalleled potential for sensitive millimeter/submillimeter spectral line observations. Its wide…

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