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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 a catalogue of ALMA flux density measurements of 754 calibrators observed between August 2012 and September 2017, for a total of 16,263 observations in different bands and epochs. The flux densities were measured reprocessing the…

Accurately measuring the atmospheric coherence time is still an important problem despite a variety of applicable methods. The Multi-aperture scintillation sensor (MASS) designed for the vertical profiling of optical turbulence, also…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Victor Kornilov

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

This study aims at introducing two conservative thermodynamic variables (moist-air entropy potential temperature and total water content) into a one-dimensional variational data assimilation system (1D-Var) to demonstrate the benefit for…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Pascal Marquet , Pauline Martinet , Jean-François Mahfouf , Alina Lavinia Barbu , Benjamin Ménétrier

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

The ngVLA has adopted a standalone system with a $\sim$~1.5 m diameter antenna and associated ambient temperature receiver and electronics at each antenna as its baseline design for water vapor radiometer (WVR). The WVR is intended to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Tirupati Kumara Sridharan , Robert Lehmensiek , Yoshiharu Asaki

The discovery of the near infrared windows into the Venus deep atmosphere has enabled the use of remote sensing techniques to study the composition of the Venus atmosphere below the clouds. In particular, water vapor absorption lines can be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeremy Bailey

A Low Humidity and Temperature Profiling (LHATPRO) microwave radiometer, manufactured by Radiometer Physics GmbH (RPG), is used to monitor sky conditions over ESO's Paranal observatory in support of VLT science operations. The unit measures…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Richard R. Querel , Florian Kerber

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array offers an unprecedented view of our Sun at sub-/millimeter wavelengths. The high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution facilitates the measurement of gas temperatures and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Sven Wedemeyer , Asbjorn Parmer

The Atacama Desert has long been established as an excellent site for submillimeter observations. Yet identifying potentially optimal locations for a new facility within this region can require long field campaigns that rely on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-08 Pablo Gómez Toribio , Tony Mroczkowski , Anna Cabré , Carlos De Breuck , Ricardo Bustos , Rodrigo Reeves

We present our $AstroSat$ soft X-ray observations of a compact binary system, AR Sco, and analysis of its X-ray observations with $Chandra$ that were taken only about a week before the $AstroSat$ observations. An analysis of the soft X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 K. P. Singh , V. Girish , J. Tiwari , P. E. Barrett , D. A. H. Buckley , S. B. Potter , E. Schlegel , V. Rana , G. Stewart

We report measurements of the millimeter wavelength brightness fluctuations produced by the atmosphere above the South Pole made with the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR). The data span the 2002 Austral winter during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. S. Bussmann , W. L. Holzapfel , C. L. Kuo

We have developed a Thomson scattering measurement system for the cascade arc discharge device designed for the plasma window (PW) application study. The PW is one of the plasma application techniques that sustain the steep pressure…

Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) is a powerful technique for characterizing the thermal properties of layered materials. However, its effectiveness at modulation frequencies below 0.1 MHz is hindered by pulse accumulation effects,…

We use a newly commissioned rapid expansion aerosol chamber (REACh) facility to study the homogeneous nucleation of water vapor to form liquid droplets. We perform high-speed measurements to track the partitioning of water into vapor and…

This paper presents a global air and sea temperature anomalies analysis based upon a combination of the wavelet multiresolution analysis and the scaling analysis methods of a time series. The wavelet multiresolution analysis decomposes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicola Scafetta , Tim Imholt , Paolo Grigolini , Jim Roberts

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 have implemented control and data-taking software that makes it possible to scan the beams of individual ALMA antennas to perform quite complex patterns while recording the signals at high rates. We conducted test observations of the Sun…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Neil Phillips , Richard Hills , Tim Bastian , Hugh Hudson , Ralph Marson , Sven Wedemeyer

We utilise ground-based, balloon-borne and satellite climatology data to reconstruct site and season-dependent vertical profiles of precipitable water vapour (PWV). We use these profiles to solve radiative transfer through the atmosphere,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 Bartosz Lew , Joanna Uscka-Kowalkowska