First light from the Superconducting Integrated Receiver on board Terahertz limb sounder TELIS P. Yagoubova, G. de Langea, R. Hoogeveena, A. de Langea and V. Kosheletsb a Netherlands Institute for Space Research, SRON, the Netherlands b Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, IREE, Russia Abstract-- We present the flight configuration and performance of the Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) channel on the TELIS instrument (Terahertz and Submm Limb Sounder). ...

The LIDAR Instrument Information . The LIDAR was designed in a bistatic scheme with a separate transmitter and two receiver channels. ... The total mass of the instrument is only 940 grams (about 2 pounds) and a total volume is 950 cubic centimeters in both assemblies. ... Engineers designed the LIDAR to operate in the temperature range from -100 to 50 degrees Celsius (-148 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit) under lower pressure, near one millibar. ... One of the receiver channels has polarizer. ...

ASKAP Industry briefing Russell Gough October 23, 2009 Outline · Introduction · ASKAP specifications · Analog System specifications · Design constraints · ASKAP prototype PAF receiver system · Design Options · Solution · Key challenges and future directions · Mass production and testing of receiver packages · Component cooling · Integrated receivers (`system-on-a-chip') CSIRO. ... ASKAP Industry briefing - October 23, 2009 Slide 10 ASKAP Analog System architecture with 200 receiver elements CSIRO. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

... The properties of the currently available receivers are given in Table 3 . The columns of the table give the receiver name, frequency range, the typical System Temperature (T ), Gain, System Equivalent Flux Density (SEFD) and Half Power Beamwidth (HPBW) for zenith angles below 15 (as measured by Arecibo staff.) ... Full details of the ALFA observing system, its performance, how to join an ALFA Consortium, and the latest ALFA news is to be found via, http://www.naic.edu/alfa/ . ...

... build and test receivers up to 40 - 350 GHz . ... Banham R., Valsecchi G., Lucci L., Pelosi G., Selleri S., Natale V., Nesti R., Tofani G. 2005, Microwave Journal 48, 112 Electroformed front-end at 100 GHz for Radioastronomical applications . Comoretto, G., D'Ambrosi, A., Nesti, R., Russo, A., Palagi, P. 2006, Arcetri Technical Report n. 4 A modular multichannel spectrometer - design study . ... Cresci, L., Lucci, L., Orfei A., Natale, V., Nesti, R., Panella, D., Pelosi, G., Rossi, L. 2006, Mem. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > APEX Science Verification > SHFI . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Telescope Time Allocation . ... ESO Data . ... The Science Verification (SV) observations of the APEX Swedish Heterodyne Facility Instrument were observed in March 2008. ... A selection of the APEX-1 proposals listed below have been observed during the week of joint SV observations in March 2008, and later during the ESO time of period...

... The computer control systems and the data analysis software tools are being developed simultaneously and are used with the mock-up hardware to simulate the data acquisition process. ... Software which handles the commissioning tasks, engineering analysis, and data processing are being developed in the AIPS++ system. ... Here we give some examples of the software being developed and we show some of the tools available in the AIPS++ programming and analysis environment. ...

Instruments and Methods 129 Multi-element MMIC focal array for radio telescope V.B. Khaikin1, E.K. Ma jorova1 , Yu.N. Parijskij1, M.D. Parnes2 , R.G. Shifman2 , V.A. Dobrov2 , V.A. Volkov2, V.D. Korolkov2, S.D. Uman2 , N.A. Esepkina3 , and S.K. Kruglov3 The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences Karachai-Cherkessia, N.Arkhyz, 357147, Russia, E-mail: vkh@brown.nord.nw.ru Svetlana", Rezonance", Ascor", 194156, Engels pr. ... Four-element sub-array prototype is shown in Fig.2. ...

... JWST . ... The Birth Of Stars And Protoplanetary Systems . ... JWST Instruments . Instrument Module . ... The Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) forms the scientific heart of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and is being developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center . ... It consists of four science instruments, guider, and nine key subsystems that are shared by each of the science instruments. ... The cold portion of the ISIM is integrated with the Optical Telescope Element (OTE). ...

... Flight 1) 2) 3) Flight 1) 2) 3) model FM1 has the following parts: LNA MY-18, serial number PN 01-0252, factory number FM1; receiver box KRT-18, serial number PN 17660-01, factory number FM-001; DC-DC converters IVEP1 and IVEP2, factory number 05. model FM2 has the following parts: LNA MY-18, serial number PN 01-0252, factory number FM2; Receiver box KRT-18 serial number PN 17660-01, factory number FM-002; DC-DC converters IVEP1 and IVEP2 factory number 06. ... See Appendix 1. ... 2003. ... 2004 . ...

... After passing degree work in MAO of NAS of of USSR Sosonkin has received the recommendation for receipt in post-graduate course of M??. ... Subjects of his scientific work were use of new receivers of radiation, in particular of electron-optical converters at observant astronomy. ... On industrial base FTI Sosonkin has created installation on base EOC UM - 92 for Cassegrain focus of a telescope ?ZT-2 and similar to it and installation with the same type EOC for focus of Newton. ...

SOME RESULTS FROM INTMINS . The experiment can be performed when the electron beam (instrument ISTOCHNIK ) and plasma blobs (instrument ARIEL ) are injected approximately along or perpendicular to the Earth's magnetic field. ... The pulses of frequency of 1000 Hz will generate EM waves and its harmonics. ... To increase the electron gun pulse duration up to D t = 0.5 f -1 ( D t = 5x10 -4 s) and to stabilise their frequency as good as possible. ... Back to the INTMINS Main Page ...

In the PROJECT we are using the following peculiar . features of RATAN-600 . ... Brightness temperature sensitivity being equal to the antenna temperature sensitivity .. ... Receiver system .. ... Using aperture averaging effect. dual- beam and dual (multi-) frequency filtration, we demonstrated full filtration of the atmosphere noise down to the receiver noise at all scales of acoustics peaks ( Fig.1 , Fig 2 ). ... We select this frequency as the central one in our project. ... Antenna surface . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Integration of the NIRSpec instrument . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of the major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been, in September 2013, the completion by ESA of NIRSpec, the first multi-object spectrograph to be operated in space. ... Cambridge, and in particular the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, is heavily involved in NIRSpec by hosting one of the Instrument Science Team members (R. Maiolino). ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

Princeton Instruments was incorporated in 1981 and has been building low light systems for its entire history. ... Princeton Instruments uses the latest in computer aided design to engineer the highest performance camera systems possible. ... We work with every major manufacturer of CCD arrays and image intensifiers in the world. ... From early in the company history, Princeton Instruments has offered complete detection systems for many different types of applications. ... Princeton Instruments, Inc. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 backcorr August 16, 2005 Abstract backcorr makes a background spectrum appropriate to the accumulation region used for a given source spectrum. The task calls arfgen twice; once for the source region and once for the background region. ... EPIC backcorr corrected background spectrum [1] 8 Algorithm subroutine backcorr Arfgen computes the effective area curves for both the source (arf_in_src.arf) and background (arf_in_bkg.arf) regions. ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...