The control system for the 13.7m millimeter wavelength telescope equipped with multibeam receiver

Author

Wenying Duan ; Jixian Sun ; Qijun Yao ; Yingxi Zuo ; Jinjiang Sun ; Shaoliang Li ; Zhenhui Lin ; Xuguo Zhang ; Wenlei Shan ; Shengcai Shi ; Ji Yang

Author_Institution

Purple Mountain Obs., Nanjing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

23-25 July 2013

Firstpage

1696

Lastpage

1701

Abstract

An upgraded version of the control system for the Delingha 13.7m millimeter wavelength telescope is recently introduced. This new control system adapts the new installed multi-beam receiver operated between 85 and 115 GHz. This paper presents a general overview of this new control system, which performs many operational functions including star acquisition and tracking, receiver setting and monitoring, spectra analyzing and data storage, and observation scheduling based on a distributed computing system. Special descriptions are given to the frontend and backend control of the multi-beam receiver.

Keywords

control engineering computing; distributed processing; millimetre wave receivers; radiotelescopes; spectral analysis; star trackers; backend control; control system; data storage; distributed computing system; frequency 115 GHz; frequency 85 GHz; frontend control; millimeter wavelength telescope; multibeam receiver; observation scheduling; spectra analysis; star acquisition; star monitoring; star tracking; wavelength 13.7 m; Control systems; Graphical user interfaces; Mixers; Monitoring; Receivers; Servers; Telescopes; Control system; Multibeam; On-The-Fly; Radio telescope;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Natural Computation (ICNC), 2013 Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenyang

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNC.2013.6818255

Filename

6818255