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- Belitsky, Victor, 1955, et al.
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ALMA Band 5 receiver cartridge: Design, performance, and commissioning
- 2018
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Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - : EDP Sciences. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746. ; 611
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We describe the design, performance, and commissioning results for the new ALMA Band 5 receiver channel, 163-211 GHz, which is in the final stage of full deployment and expected to be available for observations in 2018. This manuscript provides the description of the new ALMA Band 5 receiver cartridge and serves as a reference for observers using the ALMA Band 5 receiver for observations. At the time of writing this paper, the ALMA Band 5 Production Consortium consisting of NOVA Instrumentation group, based in Groningen, NL, and GARD in Sweden have produced and delivered to ALMA Observatory over 60 receiver cartridges. All 60 cartridges fulfil the new more stringent specifications for Band 5 and demonstrate excellent noise temperatures, typically below 45 K single sideband (SSB) at 4 K detector physical temperature and below 35 K SSB at 3.5 K (typical for operation at the ALMA Frontend), providing the average sideband rejection better than 15 dB, and the integrated cross-polarization level better than -25 dB. The 70 warm cartridge assemblies, hosting Band 5 local oscillator and DC bias electronics, have been produced and delivered to ALMA by NRAO. The commissioning results confirm the excellent performance of the receivers.
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- Belitsky, Victor, 1955, et al.
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Design and performance of ALMA band 5 receiver cartridge
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Ingår i: 35th International Conference on Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2010. - 9781424466559 ; , s. 1-2
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- ALMA, Atacama Large Millimetre Array, covers the frequency band from 30 GHz to 960 GHz in ten separate frequency bands. We present here the design and performance of the ALMA Band 5 receiver cartridge that covers 163–211 GHz. The Band 5 receiver shows the state-of-the-art performance with the noise temperature below 65K (SSB) and sideband rejection above 12 dB over 80% of the RF band.
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- Belitsky, Victor, 1955, et al.
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Prototype ALMA Band 5 Cartridge:Design and Performance
- 2009
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 20TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY, Charlottesville, VA, USA, April 20-22, 2009, s. 2-5.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeterArray (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is apartnership of East Asia, Europe and North America incooperation with the Republic of Chile and aims to build aninterferometer radio telescope consisting of more than 60antennas. The instrument is under construction at the Llano deChajnantor, about 50 km east of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.This work presents a part of ALMA frontend, the development,design and performance of one of the frequency channels of theALMA receiver, the Band 5 prototype cartridge for 163 – 211GHz frequency band.
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- Belitsky, Victor, 1955, et al.
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SEPIA - A new single pixel receiver at the APEX telescope
- 2018
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Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - : EDP Sciences. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746. ; 612
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Context. We describe the new Swedish-ESO PI Instrument for APEX (SEPIA) receiver, which was designed and built by the Group for Advanced Receiver Development (GARD), at Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) in collaboration with ESO. It was installed and commissioned at the APEX telescope during 2015 with an ALMA Band 5 receiver channel and updated with a new frequency channel (ALMA Band 9) in February 2016. Aim. This manuscript aims to provide, for observers who use the SEPIA receiver, a reference in terms of the hardware description, optics and performance as well as the commissioning results. Methods. Out of three available receiver cartridge positions in SEPIA, the two current frequency channels, corresponding to ALMA Band 5, the RF band 158-211 GHz, and Band 9, the RF band 600-722 GHz, provide state-of-the-art dual polarization receivers. The Band 5 frequency channel uses 2SB SIS mixers with an average SSB noise temperature around 45 K with IF (intermediate frequency) band 4-8 GHz for each sideband providing total 4 × 4 GHz IF band. The Band 9 frequency channel uses DSB SIS mixers with a noise temperature of 75-125 K with IF band 4-12 GHz for each polarization. Results. Both current SEPIA receiver channels are available to all APEX observers.
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- Belitsky, Victor, 1955, et al.
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Terahertz Instrumentation For Radio Astronomy
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Ingår i: International Symposium on Terahertz Science and Technology between Japan and Sweden. ; , s. 28-29
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Radio Astronomy was always a frontrunner in the demand on terahertz technology. Millimetre and sub-millimetre wave receivers operate at ground-based observatories for more than 20 years with real Terahertz instruments making its way to ground-based [1] and space-based observatories, e.g., Herschel HIFI, during last years.In this talk, we will look at the key requirements to the radio astronomy and environmental science terahertz receivers using heterodyne technology. The most promising and established technologies for high-resolution spectroscopy instrumentation will be discussed. Using results of the Group for Advanced Receiver Development for Onsala Space Observatory 20 m telescope, for Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope and ALMA Project Band 5, we will illustrate the trends and achievements in the terahertz instrumentation for radio astronomy.
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- Belitsky, Victor, 1955, et al.
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Thz-sensor
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Billade, Bhushan, 1982, et al.
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ALMA band 5 cartridge performance
- 2010
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Ingår i: 21st International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology 2010, ISSTT 2010; Oxford; United Kingdom; 23 March 2010 through 25 March 2010. - 9781617823626 ; , s. 112-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Work presented here concerns the design and performance of the ALMA Band 5 cold cartridge, one of the 10 frequency channels of ALMA project, a radio interferometer under construction at Atacama Desert in Chile. The Band 5 cartridge is a dual polarization receiver with the polarization separation performed by orthomode transducer (OMT) [1]. For each polarization, Band 5 receiver employs sideband rejection (2SB) scheme based on quadrature layout, with SIS mixers covering 163-211 GHz with 4-8 GHz IF. The LO injection circuitry is integrated with mixer chip and is implemented on the same substrate, resulting in a compact 2SB assembly. Amongst the other ALMA bands, the ALMA Band 5 being the lowest frequency band that uses all cold optics, has the largest mirror. Consequently, ALMA Band 5 mirror along with its support structure leaves very little room for placing OMT, mixers and IF subsystems. The constraints put by the size of cold optics and limited cartridge space, required of us to revise the original 2SB design and adopt a design where all the components like OMT, mixer, IF hybrid, isolators and IF amplifier are directly connected to each other without using any co-ax cables in-between. The IF subsystem uses the space between 4 K and 15 K stage of the cartridge and is thermally connected to 4 K stage. Avoiding co-ax cabling required use of custom designed IF hybrid, furthermore, due to limited cooling capacity at 4 K stage, resistive bias circuitry for the mixers is moved to 15 K stage and the IF hybrid along with an integrated bias-T is implemented using superconducting micro-strip lines. The E-probes for both LO and RF waveguide-to-microstrip transitions are placed perpendicular to the wave direction (back-piece configuration). The RF choke at the end of the probes provides a virtual ground for the RF/LO signal, and the choke is DC grounded to the chassis. The on-chip LO injection is done using a microstrip line directional coupler with slot-line branches in the ground plane. The isolated port of the LO coupler is terminated by floating wideband elliptical termination. The mixer employs two SIS junctions with junction area of 3 μm2 each, in twin junction configuration, followed by a quarter wave transformer to couple it to the signal probe. A quarter-wave high impedance line on an extra layer of SiO2 is used to extract the IF by separating from RF [2]. At the conference, we plan to present details of the cartridge design and results of the experimental characterization of the ALMA Band 5 cold cartridge.
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- Billade, Bhushan, 1982, et al.
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Performance of the First ALMA Band 5 Production Cartridge
- 2012
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. - 2156-342X .- 2156-3446. ; 2:2, s. 208-214
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present performance of the first ALMA Band 5 production cartridge, covering frequencies from 163 GHz to 211 GHz. ALMA Band 5 is a dual polarization, sideband separation (2SB) receiver based on all Niobium (Nb) Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) tunnel junction mixers, providing 16 GHz of instantaneous RF bandwidth for astronomy observations. The 2SB mixer for each polarization employs a quadrature configuration. The sideband separation occurs at the output of the IF hybrid that has integrated bias-T for biasing the mixers, and is produced using superconducting thin film technology.Experimental verification of the Band 5 cold cartridge performed together with warm cartridge assembly, confirms that the system noise temperature is below 45 K over most of the RF band, which is less than five photon noise (5 hf/k). This is to our knowledge, the best results reported at these frequencies. The measurement of the sideband rejection indicates that the sideband rejection better than 10 dB over 90% of the observational band.
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