Establishment and activities of Radio Astronomy Frequency Committee in the Asia-Pacific region

Author

Ohishi, M. ; Tzioumis, A. ; Inoue, M. ; Ananthakrishnan, S. ; Venkatasubramani, T.L. ; Shankar, U. ; Dongrong, J. ; Zhang, H. ; Chung, H.S. ; Lim, Jungyoul ; Khan, N.G. ; Sowerby, K.W.

Author_Institution

Nat. Astronomical Obs. of Japan, Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

24-27 Aug. 2004

Firstpage

403

Lastpage

405

Abstract

The Radio Astronomy Frequency Committee in the Asia-Pacific region (RAFCAP) was established during the last AP-RASC meeting. Compared to activities in European and American regions, we did not have a body to manage radio frequency issues for radio astronomy in the Asia-Pacific region, and the requirement for such a body had been discussed for a long time. Because of the extremely high sensitivity of radio telescopes while the dense usage of frequencies in active services, the interference from active services has been becoming more and more serious for radio astronomy. A brief summary of the situation and activity is given.

Keywords

frequency allocation; radioastronomy; radiofrequency interference; Asia-Pacific region; Radio Astronomy Frequency Committee; radio frequency interference; radio frequency management; Astrophysics; Australia; Extraterrestrial measurements; Noise measurement; Observatories; Power measurement; Radio astronomy; Radio frequency; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 Asia-Pacific

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8404-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APRASC.2004.1422498

Filename

1422498