Issue |
Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 137, Number 3, June II 1999
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Page(s) | 537 - 541 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999260 | |
Published online | 15 June 1999 |
A new radio spectral receiving system at
mm in Urumqi
Astronomical Station
1
Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, PR China
2
Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China
3
Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, PR China
4
Urumqi Astronomical Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, PR China
Received:
18
January
1999
Accepted:
24
March
1999
We describe a new radio spectral receiving system installed on the 25 m radio telescope of the Urumqi Astronomical Station in China. The receiver is conventional cryogenically cooled 22 GHz system, with the front end being a low noise HEMT amplifier. An average noise temperature of the receiver is about 50 K. The back end, however, is less conventional; it is a surface acoustic wave chirp transform spectrometer (SAW CZT), used for the first time in radio astronomy. As the prototype spectrometer, this system has a bandwidth of 40 MHz and 39.06 KHz frequency resolution. The observational results of water vapor masers demonstrate the feasibility of the SAW CZT-based spectrometer as astronomical spectral line observations.
Key words: instrumentation: detectors
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