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Jul 9, 2018

Electronics instrumentation for the Greenland telescope

Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
  • Derek Y. Kubo
  • Johnson C. C. Han
  • Hiroaki Nishioka
  • Ryan Chilson
  • Ranjani Srinivasan
  • Ta-Shun Wei
  • Chih-Wei L. Huang
  • Chen-Yu Yu
  • Peter Oshiro
  • Philippe Raffin
  • Yau-De Huang
  • Keiichi Asada
  • Shoko Koyama
  • Daniel Bintley
  • Craig Walther
  • Per Friberg
  • Ming-Tang Chen
  • Satoki Matsushita
  • Paul T. P. Ho
  • Kuan-Yu Liu
  • Pierre Martin-Cocher
  • Sheng-Feng Yen
  • Kuo-Chieh Fu
  • homin Jiang
  • Shu-Hao Chang
  • Chung-Cheng Chen
  • Makoto Inoue
  • Patrick Koch
  • Yang-Tai Shaw
  • Timothy J. Norton
  • Nimesh A. Patel
  • Shepherd S. Doeleman
  • Jessica Dempsey
  • Ching-Tang Liu
  • Kou-Chang Han
  • Song-Chu Chang
  • Li-Ming Lu
  • Hideo Ogawa
  • Kimihiro Kimura
  • Yutaka Hasegawa
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Volume
10708
Number
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
DOI
10.1117/12.2312241
Publisher
SPIE

The Greenland Telescope project has recently participated in an experiment to image the supermassive black hole shadow at the center of M87 using Very Long Baseline Interferometry technique in April of 2018. The antenna consists of the 12-m ALMA North American prototype antenna that was modified to support two auxiliary side containers and to withstand an extremely cold environment. The telescope is currently at Thule Air Base in Greenland with the long-term goal to move the telescope over the Greenland ice sheet to Summit Station. The GLT currently has a single cryostat which houses three dual polarization receivers that cover 84-96 GHz, 213-243 GHz and 271-377 GHz bands. A hydrogen maser frequency source in conjunction with high frequency synthesizers are used to generate the local oscillator references for the receivers. The intermediate frequency outputs of each receiver cover 4-8 GHz and are heterodyned to baseband for digitization within a set of ROACH-2 units then formatted for recording onto Mark-6 data recorders. A separate set of ROACH-2 units operating in parallel provides the function of auto-correlation for real-time spectral analysis. Due to the stringent instrumental stability requirements for interferometry a diagnostic test system was incorporated into the design. Tying all of the above equipment together is the fiber optic system designed to operate in a low temperature environment and scalable to accommodate a larger distance between the control module and telescope for Summit Station. A report on the progress of the above electronics instrumentation system will be provided.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312241
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000451719300021&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1117/12.2312241
  • ISSN : 0277-786X
  • eISSN : 1996-756X
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000451719300021

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