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The digital phase lock loop described in this paper has been in use on the Submillimeter Array (SMA) front-end receivers for over a decade and has been a key element in obtaining all of the high quality images that have been published from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Todd R. Hunter , Robert Kimberk , Patrick Steve Leiker , Cheuk-Yu Edward Tong , Robert W. Wilson

Preliminary specifications for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) call for 25% of the total collecting area of the dish array to be located at distances greater than 180 km from the core, with a maximum baseline of at least 3000 km. The array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. E. H. Godfrey , H. Bignall , S. Tingay , L. Harvey-Smith , M. Kramer , S. Burke-Spolaor , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , M. Johnston-Hollitt , R. Ekers , S. Gulyaev

The utilization of millimeter wave frequency bands is expected to become prevalent in the following communication systems. However, generating and transmitting communication signals over these frequencies is not as straightforward as in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 M. Yaser Yağan , Ibrahim Hökelek , Ali E. Pusane , Ali Görçin

We have measured the angular diameters of six M dwarfs with the CHARA Array, a long-baseline optical interferometer located at Mount Wilson Observatory. Spectral types range from M1.0 V to M3.0 V and linear radii from 0.38 to 0.69 Rsun.…

This paper presents the design and comprehensive measurements of a high-performance 8-element linear array and a compact high-gain 32-element planar antenna array covering the n257 (26.5--29.5 GHz) FR-2 millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. First,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Abdul Jabbar , Jalil Ur-Rehman Kazim , Mahmoud A. Shawky , Muhammad Ali Imran , Qammer Abbasi , Muhammad Usman , Masood Ur-Rehman

We present a new multi-pixel high resolution (R >10^7) spectrometer for the Stratospheric Observatory for Far-Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The receiver uses 2 x 7-pixel subarrays in orthogonal polarization, each in an hexagonal array around…

In the past two decades, a rebirth of interest in low-frequency radio astronomy for 21 cm tomography of the Epoch of Reionization, has given rise to a new class of radio interferometers with $N \gg 100$ antennas. The availability of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-11 Deepthi Gorthi

A revolution in radio receiving technology is underway with the development of densely packed phased arrays for radio astronomy. This technology can provide an exceptionally large field of view, while at the same time sampling the sky with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-03 S. A. Torchinsky , A. O. H. Olofsson , B. Censier , A. Karastergiou , M. Serylak , P. Renaud , C. Taffoureau

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have a low frequency component (SKA-low) which has as one of its main science goals the study of the redshifted 21cm line from the earliest phases of star and galaxy formation in the Universe. This 21cm…

LWA1 is a new large radio telescope array operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz, located in central New Mexico. The telescope consists of 260 pairs of dipole-type antennas whose outputs are individually digitized and formed into beams.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S. W. Ellingson , J. Craig , J. Dowell , G. B. Taylor , J. F. Helmboldt

Modern radio interferometers are designed with increasingly sprawling geographical footprints, offering enhanced sensitivity and resolution. However, managing such extensive facilities presents operational challenges that can potentially…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 C. A. Taylor , J. Dowell , G. B. Taylor , K. S. Obenberger , S. I. Chastain , J. Verastegui , L. E. Cordonnier , P. Kumar , E. Sheldahl , S. Bruzewski , T. Dolch , C. A. Siders

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a radio telescope designed to operate between 70MHz and 10GHz. Due to this large bandwidth, the SKA will be built out of different collectors, namely antennas and dishes to cover the frequency range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 Adam Gauci , Kristian Zarb Adami , John Abela , Babak E. Cohanim

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will be a valuable tool for observing the chromosphere of our Sun at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths at high spatial, temporal and spectral resolution and as such has great potential to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Sven Wedemeyer , Tim Bastian , Roman Brajsa , Miroslav Barta , Masumi Shimojo

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

Millimeter wave (mmWave) is an attractive candidate for high-speed mobile communications in the future. However, due to the propagation characteristics of mmWave, beam and and and and alignment becomes a key challenge for serving users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Yu Liu , Jiahui Li , Yin Sun , Shidong Zhou

Aperture array (AA) technology is at the forefront of new developments and discoveries in radio astronomy. Currently LOFAR is successfully demonstrating the capabilities of dense and sparse AA's at low frequencies. For the mid-frequencies,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-21 Ilse M. van Bemmel , Arnold van Ardenne , Jan Geralt bij de Vaate , Andrew J. Faulkner , Raffaella Morganti

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

LWA1 is a new radio telescope operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz, located in central New Mexico. The telescope consists of 258 pairs of dipole-type antennas whose outputs are individually digitized and formed into beams.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. W. Ellingson , G. B. Taylor , J. Craig , J. Hartman , J. Dowell , C. N. Wolfe , T. E. Clarke , B. C. Hicks , N. E. Kassim , P. S. Ray , L. J. Rickard , F. K. Schinzel , K. W. Weiler

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

SCUBA-2, which replaces SCUBA (the Submillimeter Common User Bolometer Array) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in 2006, is a large-format bolometer array for submillimeter astronomy. Unlike previous detectors which have used…