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The calibration procedures for data collected for Argus and the 4mm Receiver instruments on the GBT are presented. The measured beam size, aperture efficiency, and main-beam efficiency are derived for the range of observing frequencies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 David T. Frayer , Ronald J. Maddalena , Steven White , Galen Watts , Amanda Kepley , Jialu Li , Andrew I. Harris

Optical stellar intensity interferometry with air Cherenkov telescope arrays, composed of nearly 100 telescopes, will provide means to measure fundamental stellar parameters and also open the possibility of model-independent imaging. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Paul D. Nunez , Richard Holmes , David Kieda , Stephan LeBohec

We consider the problem of estimating the distance, or range, between two locations by measuring the phase of multiple sinusoidal signals transmitted between the locations. Traditional estimators developed for optical interferometry include…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Assad Akhlaq , Robby McKilliam , Ramanan Subramanian , Andre Pollok

We consider quantum enhancement of direct-detection interferometric measurements to increase telescope resolution. We propose a protocol of measuring interferometric visibility function using imperfectly entangled states shared between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Siddhartha Santra , Brian T. Kirby , Vladimir S. Malinovsky , Michael Brodsky

This manual is intended to help ALMA and other interferometer users improve images by recognising limitations and how to overcome them and deciding when and how to use self-calibration. The images provided by the ALMA Science Archive are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 A. M. S. Richards , E. Moravec , S. Etoka , E. B. Fomalont , A. F. Pérez-Sánchez , M. C. Toribio , R. A. Laing

(Sub-)mm interferometry is the most favorable technique to investigate the earliest stages of massive star formation. I will outline general applications in that field and discuss results of different sub-topics (hot core chemistry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Beuther

In this paper we present the electromagnetic modeling and beam pattern measurements of a 16-elements ultra wideband sparse random test array for the low frequency instrument of the Square Kilometer Array telescope. We discuss the importance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 E. de Lera Acedo , P. Bolli , F. Paonessa , G. Virone , E. Colin-Beltran , N. Razavi-Ghods , I. Aicardi , A. Lingua , P. Maschio , J. Monari , G. Naldi , M. Piras , G. Pupillo

The motivation to build spaceborne interferometric arrays for low-frequency radio astronomy is widely recognised because frequencies below the ionospheric cutoff are inaccessible for ground-based radio telescopes. We discuss the theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Janhunen , A. Olsson , R. Karlsson , J. -M. Griessmeier

Microwave, submillimetre-wave, and far-infrared phased arrays are of considerable importance for astronomy. We consider the behaviour imaging phased arrays and interferometric phased arrays from a functional perspective. It is shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stafford Withington , George Saklatvala , Michael P. Hobson

Large-format (sub)millimeter wavelength imaging arrays are best operated in scanning observing modes rather than traditional position-switched (chopped) modes. The choice of observing mode is critical for isolating source signals from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Kovacs

Interferometric measurements of optical path length differences of stars over large baselines can deliver extremely accurate astrometric data. The interferometer GRAVITY will simultaneously measure two objects in the field of view of the…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable direct observations of low-frequency gravitational waves, offering unprecedented insight into astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. LISA's heterodyne interferometric measurement…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-26 Gerhard Heinzel , Javier Álvarez-Vizoso , Miguel Dovale-Álvarez

The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope(FAST) is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. In this paper, we make forecast on the FAST HI large scale structure survey by mock observations. We consider a drift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-30 Wenkai Hu , Xin Wang , Fengquan Wu , Yougang Wang , Pengjie Zhang , Xuelei Chen

A long-held vision has been to realize diffraction-limited optical aperture synthesis over kilometer baselines. This will enable imaging of stellar surfaces and their environments, and reveal interacting gas flows in binary systems. An…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Dainis Dravins , Tiphaine Lagadec , Paul D. Nuñez

The space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to observe the gravitational-wave signals from systems comprised of a massive black hole and a stellar-mass compact object. These systems are known as extreme-mass-ratio…

Several km-scale gravitational-wave detectors have been constructed world wide. These instruments combine a number of advanced technologies to push the limits of precision length measurement. The core devices are laser interferometers of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Charlotte Bond , Daniel Brown , Andreas Freise , Kenneth Strain

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a project that aims to exploring the highest energy region of electromagnetic spectrum. Two arrays, one for each hemisphere, will cover the full sky in a range from few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-28 M. Iori , P. Majumdar , F. De Persio , A. Chatterjee , F. Ferrarotto , B. K. Nagesh , L. Saha , B. B. Singh

A novel method nicknamed ELASTIC is proposed for the alignment of multiple-aperture telescopes, in particular segmented telescopes. It only needs the acquisition of two diversity images of an unresolved source, and is based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 S. Vievard , F. Cassaing , L. M. Mugnier

While atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes have a small field of view and a small duty fraction, arrays of particle detectors on ground have a 1\,sr field of view and a 100% duty fraction. On the other hand, particle detector arrays have a much…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Bernlöhr

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