An ultra-wide bandwidth (704 to 4 032 MHz) receiver for the Parkes radio telescope

George Hobbs; Richard N. Manchester; Alex Dunning; Andrew Jameson; Paul Roberts; Daniel George; J. A. Green; John Tuthill; Lawrence Toomey; Jane F. Kaczmarek; Stacy Mader; Malte Marquarding; Azeem Ahmed; Shaun W. Amy; Matthew Bailes; Ron Beresford; N. D.R. Bhat; Douglas C.J. Bock; Michael Bourne; Mark Bowen; Michael Brothers; Andrew D. Cameron; Ettore Carretti; Nick Carter; Santy Castillo; Raji Chekkala; Wan Cheng; Yoon Chung; Daniel A. Craig; Shi Dai; Joanne Dawson; James Dempsey; Paul Doherty; Bin Dong; Philip Edwards; Tuohutinuer Ergesh; Xuyang Gao; Jin Lin Han; Douglas Hayman; Balthasar Indermuehle; Kanapathippillai Jeganathan; Simon Johnston; Henry Kanoniuk; Michael Kesteven; Michael Kramer; Mark Leach; Vince McIntyre; Vanessa Moss; Stefan Osłowski; Chris Phillips; Nathan Pope; Brett Preisig; Daniel Price; Ken Reeves; Les Reilly; John Reynolds; Tim Robishaw; Peter Roush; Tim Ruckley; Elaine Sadler; John Sarkissian; Sean Severs; Ryan Shannon; Ken Smart; Malcolm Smith; Stephanie Smith; Charlotte Sobey; Lister Staveley-Smith; Anastasios Tzioumis; Willem van Straten; Nina Wang; Linqing Wen; Matthew Whiting

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An ultra-wide bandwidth (704 to 4 032 MHz) receiver for the Parkes radio telescope

George Hobbs^*, Richard N. Manchester, Alex Dunning, Andrew Jameson, Paul Roberts, Daniel George, J. A. Green, John Tuthill, Lawrence Toomey, Jane F. Kaczmarek, Stacy Mader, Malte Marquarding, Azeem Ahmed, Shaun W. Amy, Matthew Bailes, Ron Beresford, N. D.R. Bhat, Douglas C.J. Bock, Michael Bourne, Mark BowenMichael Brothers, Andrew D. Cameron, Ettore Carretti, Nick Carter, Santy Castillo, Raji Chekkala, Wan Cheng, Yoon Chung, Daniel A. Craig, Shi Dai, Joanne Dawson, James Dempsey, Paul Doherty, Bin Dong, Philip Edwards, Tuohutinuer Ergesh, Xuyang Gao, Jin Lin Han, Douglas Hayman, Balthasar Indermuehle, Kanapathippillai Jeganathan, Simon Johnston, Henry Kanoniuk, Michael Kesteven, Michael Kramer, Mark Leach, Vince McIntyre, Vanessa Moss, Stefan Osłowski, Chris Phillips, Nathan Pope, Brett Preisig, Daniel Price, Ken Reeves, Les Reilly, John Reynolds, Tim Robishaw, Peter Roush, Tim Ruckley, Elaine Sadler, John Sarkissian, Sean Severs, Ryan Shannon, Ken Smart, Malcolm Smith, Stephanie Smith, Charlotte Sobey, Lister Staveley-Smith, Anastasios Tzioumis, Willem van Straten, Nina Wang, Linqing Wen, Matthew Whiting

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We describe an ultra-wide-bandwidth, low-frequency receiver recently installed on the Parkes radio telescope. The receiver system provides continuous frequency coverage from 704 to 4032 MHz. For much of the band (∼60%), the system temperature is approximately 22 K and the receiver system remains in a linear regime even in the presence of strong mobile phone transmissions. We discuss the scientific and technical aspects of the new receiver, including its astronomical objectives, as well as the feed, receiver, digitiser, and signal processor design. We describe the pipeline routines that form the archive-ready data products and how those data files can be accessed from the archives. The system performance is quantified, including the system noise and linearity, beam shape, antenna efficiency, polarisation calibration, and timing stability.

Original language	English
Article number	e012
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Volume	37
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2020.2
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Hobbs, G., Manchester, R. N., Dunning, A., Jameson, A., Roberts, P., George, D., Green, J. A., Tuthill, J., Toomey, L., Kaczmarek, J. F., Mader, S., Marquarding, M., Ahmed, A., Amy, S. W., Bailes, M., Beresford, R., Bhat, N. D. R., Bock, D. C. J., Bourne, M., ... Whiting, M. (2020). An ultra-wide bandwidth (704 to 4 032 MHz) receiver for the Parkes radio telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 37, Article e012. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2020.2

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An ultra-wide bandwidth (704 to 4 032 MHz) receiver for the Parkes radio telescope

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