The sardinia radio telescope: Overview and status

Author

Ambrosini, R. ; Bocchinu, A. ; Bolli, P. ; Buffa, F. ; Buttu, M. ; Cattani, Allegra ; D´Amico, N. ; Deiana, G.L. ; Fara, A. ; Fiocchi, F. ; Gaudiomonte, F. ; Maccaferri, A. ; Mariotti, S. ; Marongiu, P. ; Melis, A. ; Melis, G. ; Migoni, C. ; Morsiani, M.

Author_Institution

INAF - Inst. of Radio Astron., Bologna, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

9-13 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

85

Abstract

The Sardinia Radio Telescope is approaching to its official inauguration. Nowadays, the technical staff is accomplishing the last remaining activities to set up and integrate the microwave receivers, the digital processing systems and all the equipment necessary to reach a top level in the international scenario of large radio telescopes. Even if the radio telescope is still along the technical commissioning, SRT has already performed its first astronomical detection. This early scientific result opens exciting perspectives for the time when SRT will be in the full operational phase.

Keywords

microwave receivers; radiotelescopes; Sardinia Radio Telescope; astronomical detection; digital processing systems; large radio telescopes; microwave receivers; technical commissioning; Antennas; Bandwidth; Mirrors; Monitoring; Radio astronomy; Receivers; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5705-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2013.6632194

Filename

6632194