Collaborative Digital Instrumentation for the Radio Astronomy Community

射电天文学界的协作数字仪器

• 批准号: 0906040
• 负责人: Dan Werthimer
• 金额: $ 88.98万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0906040&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Digital; Instrumentation; Radio; Astronomy

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The intent of this research is to develop general-purpose low-cost astronomical instrumentation that can be used by interested members of the community. Traditional radio astronomy instrumentation is highly specialized one-off type of hardware. This research will develop and optimize modular, connectible, and upgradable hardware components based upon Field-Programmable Gate Array technology, and platform-independent open-architecture software to drive the hardware. The components will be usable for single dish and interferometric radio astronomy data capture and analysis, and will offer relatively low-cost, common, scalable radio astronomy instrumentation to the worldwide radio astronomy community at large.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这项研究的目的是开发通用的低成本天文仪器，可供感兴趣的社区成员使用。传统的射电天文仪器是高度专业化的一次性硬件。本研究将开发和优化基于现场可编程门阵列技术的模块化，可连接和可扩展的硬件组件，以及独立于平台的开放式架构软件来驱动硬件。这些组件将可用于单碟和干涉射电天文学数据捕获和分析，并将为全世界射电天文学界提供成本相对较低、通用、可扩展的射电天文学仪器。