ALFABURST的调试：初始测试与结果
天体物理仪器与方法
2016-02-16 v1
摘要
快速射电暴(FRBs)是近年来观测到的看似一次性、相对明亮的无线电脉冲。FRBs的起源目前未知，许多仪器正在建造以探测更多此类暴，从而更好地表征其物理性质和确定源种群。ALFABURST便是这样一种仪器。ALFABURST利用波多黎各305米Arecibo射电望远镜上的7波束Arecibo L波段馈源阵列(ALFA)接收机，在L波段(1.4 GHz)实时探测FRBs。我们介绍了该仪器调试阶段近期的上天测试和观测结果。ALFABURST现已可用于与其他ALFA项目进行共生观测。
引用
@article{arxiv.1602.04389,
title = {Commissioning of ALFABURST: initial tests and results},
author = {Kaustubh Rajwade and Jayanth Chennamangalam and Duncan Lorimer and Aris Karastergiou and Dan Werthimer and Andrew Siemion and David MacMahon and Jeff Cobb and Christopher Williams and Wes Armour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04389},
year = {2016}
}
备注
3 pages, 2 figures, To be published in Proceedings of the Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Massimo Bianchi, Robert T Jantzen, Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2016