NEW SCIENCE IN RADIO ASTRONOMY: APPLYING CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE THE ENTIRE DATA CHAIN, FROM RECEIVER TO FINAL OUTPUT (RADIOBLOCKS)

射电天文学的新科学：应用尖端技术增强从接收器到最终输出（无线电块）的整个数据链

• 批准号: 10051844
• 金额: $ 93.6万
• 依托单位: THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10051844
• 关键词: NEW; SCIENCE; RADIO; ASTRONOMY; APPLYING

The goal of the RADIOBLOCKS project is to achieve a maximal boost for the European major world-leading research infrastructures in radio astronomy, which over the years have invested heavily in maintaining existing facilities as well as in substantial upgrade programmes, after identifying common challenges towards their mid- and long-term scientific visions. In this project, the institutes responsible of these facilities join forces, together with partners from industry and academia, in order to develop “common building blocks” for technological solutions beyond state-of-the-art, that will enable a broad range of new science and enhance European scientific competitiveness. They share the need to continuously improve their capabilities in order to enable new science: sensitivity, field of view, bandwidth, angular, time and frequency resolution, commensality and on-sky time, reaction time and RFI mitigation. Engagement with industry to co-develop advanced technologies will increase the partners’ technological levels and strengthen their market positions, creating a true European innovation system. This project carries out carefully targeted development work and addresses common aspects in the complete data chain, categorizing this in four phases: Novel detectors and components, digital receivers, transport and correlator, and data (post)processing. We will design and demonstrate common building blocks based on cutting-edge technologies, that will be enablers and extenders in the areas most critical to the RIs, and can and will be used for upgrades of several RIs. The building blocks will be new instrument components and advanced digital solutions based on newly available (HPC/AI optimized) hardware. This approach will enable a tremendous increase of the science delivery potential of Europe’s major radio astronomical observatories, for science cases that are high on their long-term agendas, aimed at the widest possible science community in Europe and beyond.

RoadictBlocks项目的目标是为射线天文学中的欧洲主要领先的研究基础设施实现最大的推动，这些研究基础设施多年来在确定了对中期和长期科学视觉的共同挑战之后，多年来一直在维护现有设施以及实质性升级计划方面进行了大量投资。在这个项目中，负责这些设施的机构与行业和学术界的合作伙伴一起联手，以为超出最先进的技术以外的技术解决方案开发“共同的构件”，这将使广泛的新科学能够增强欧洲科学竞争力。他们有需要不断提高其能力以实现新科学的需求：灵敏度，视野，带宽，角度，时间和频率分辨率，相关性以及在Sky的时间，反应时间和RFI缓解措施。与行业共同开发高级技术，将提高合作伙伴的技术水平并加强其市场地位，从而创建真正的欧洲创新系统。该项目进行了精心定位的开发工作，并解决了完整数据链中的共同方面，并将其分为四个阶段：新颖的探测器和组件，数字接收器，传输和相关器以及数据（POST）处理。我们将根据尖端技术设计和演示常见的构建块，这些构建块将是对RIS最重要的领域的启用者和扩展器，并且可以并且将用于升级多个RIS。构建块将是基于新可用（HPC/AI优化）硬件的新仪器组件和高级数字解决方案。这种方法将使欧洲主要的射电天文观察家的科学交付潜力大大提高，对于长期议程的科学案例，其针对欧洲及以后的最广泛的科学界。