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). ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

The Parkes 21cm Multibeam Receiver is a new facility available on the Parkes Telescope which is operated by the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), CSIRO. The facility consists of a 13-beam cooled 21cm receiver system, located at the prime focus of the 64m dish. ... Completed 21cm Multibeam Receiver being hoisted up to the Parkes focus cabin. ... It is now available, in 64 MHz mode and in pulsar mode, for normal National Facility use. ... Beam 1 . Beams 2-7 . ... Frequency Range . ...

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. ...

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 . ...

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 . ...

... 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; . ...

Towards celestial sources above 1 THz with a heterodyne receiver based on a hot-electron bolometer mixer Sergey Ryabchun, Ivan Tretyakov, Matvey Finkel, Natalia Kaurova, Boris Voronov and Gregory Gol'tsman HOT-ELECTRON BOLOMETER (HEB) MIXER Scient ific and Educatio nal Radiophysics Center Mo scow State Pedago gical University Mo scow, Russia FIRST GROUND-BASED OBSERVATION WITH HEB MIXERS BEYOND 1 THz Submillimeter Telescope ...

... 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. ...

... FPV 400mw 5.8GHz AV Powerful Transmitter + Receiver (RC5808) Combo . FPV Equipments : FPV Accessories . ... Package Contents : 1 x Transmitter, 1 x Receiver . ... Цвет: бежевый . ... Артикул: 62759_OAB ВАР.1 Цвет: голубой Состав: ткань верха: текстиль, 40% хлопок, 60% полиэстер Страна дизайна: Россия Страна производства: Китай Товар сертифицирован. ... Цвет: черный . ... Цвет: синий . ... Цвет: серый . ... Платье Topshop - Topshop - Topshop . ...

... 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 . ...

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 . ...

General Information (These links are currently under revision) . ... NIC-FPS - Near Infrared Camera/Fabry-Perot Spectrometer (coming 2004) . ... Photos of Current ARC Instruments . ... These documents are provided to give users the information needed regarding instrument design, performance and operation to plan and carry out observations. While every effort is made to keep information on this site current, instrument performance does vary continuously with time and environmental conditions. ...

... Observing . ... Voyager instrument cooling after heater turned off . ... In order to reduce power consumption, mission managers have turned off a heater on part of NASAт??s Voyager 1 spacecraft, dropping the temperature of its ultraviolet spectrometer instrument more than 41ТА Fahrenheit (23ТА Celsius). ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... SMIS ] . noise temperature of the low noise amplifier less than 100 K . automatic frequency and polarization adjustment of the received signal . double transform of frequency . power supply: single phase, 220 V, 50 Hz . power consumption: less than 30 Wt . the unit measures: 470 x 300 x 130 mm . weight: less than 10 kg . ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

... Tsys (K) . ... 22GHz(1.3cm) . ... 0.06 . ... 160 . ... 1.6GHz(18cm) . ... 105 . 1300) . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Neptune in Infrared . ... 25.10.1999 . ... Neptune is the eighth most distant planet from the Sun, thirty times the Earth-Sun distance. Neptune is the fourth largest planet, almost four times Earth's diameter. ... A fascinating feature of the above photograph is that it was taken far from distant Neptune , through the Earth's normally blurry atmosphere. ... Publications with keywords: Neptune - infrared . Publications with words: Neptune - infrared . ...

Target: Venus . The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. Each one contains three separate modules: one lander and one balloon-carried atmosphere probe to be dropped off at Venus in June, 1985, and one major package of instruments which will continue on to encounter Halley's Comet in March, 1986. ... Venus and Earth: A Comparison . Earth . ... in Earth days) . ... 243 Earth days . ...

... One of the instruments, the Troughton equatorial telescope, is maintained at constant temperature and relative humidity, to reduce the rate of deterioration. ... 3.1 Troughton Equatorial Telescope . Figure 1 shows the equatorial telescope constructed by J E Troughton of London and which was erected in the west dome of Armagh Observatory in 1795. ... Troughton, J. E.: c.1790, Instructions for Adjusting the Troughton Equatorial Telescope, Armagh Observatory Archives , M17.2, 3pp. ...