An international survey of front-end receivers and observing performance of telescopes for radio astronomy
Journal article, 2019
© 2019. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. This paper presents a survey of microwave front-end receivers installed at radio telescopes throughout the world. This unprecedented analysis was conducted as part of a review of front-end developments for Italian radio telescopes, initiated by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics in 2016. Fifteen international radio telescopes have been selected to be representative of the instrumentation used for radio astronomical observations in the frequency domain from 300 MHz to 116 GHz. A comprehensive description of the existing receivers is presented and their characteristics are compared and discussed. The observing performances of the complete receiving chains are also presented. An overview of ongoing developments illustrates and anticipates future trends in front-end projects to meet the most ambitious scientific research goals.
Instrumentation: detectors
Telescopes
Author
P. Bolli
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
A. Orfei
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
A. Zanichelli
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
R. Prestage
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Steven J. Tingay
Curtin University
M. Beltrán
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
M. Burgay
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
C. Contavalle
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Mareki Honma
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
A. Kraus
Max Planck Society
Michael Lindqvist
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory
J. Lopez Perez
Spanish National Geographic Institute
P. Marongiu
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
T. Minamidani
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
S. Navarro
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
T. Pisanu
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Zhi Qiang Shen
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
B. W. Sohn
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
C. Stanghellini
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
T. Tzioumis
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
G. Zacchiroli
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
0004-6280 (ISSN) 1538-3873 (eISSN)
Vol. 131 1002 085002Subject Categories
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DOI
10.1088/1538-3873/ab1f7e