An Integrated Programme of Technology for the Next Generation of Astronomical Instrumentation

下一代天文仪器的集成技术计划

• 批准号: ST/G003076/1
• 负责人: Lucio Piccirillo
• 金额: $ 204.38万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FG003076%2F1
• 关键词: Integrated; Programme; Technology; Next; Generation

Over the last 75 years, radio astronomy has played a leading discovery role in astrophysics and cosmology. On four separate occasions the Nobel Prize has been awarded to radio astronomers. Innovations in technology have been central to this success. The continuous development of novel detector devices, innovative instrument design and their combination has produced instruments capable of panoramic multi-frequency views of the sky and also of very precise measurements of individual objects. Receiver systems of ever-greater scale, complexity and technical sophistication are now demanded and observations will increasingly be carried out on remote desert sites, on very high altitude sites (including balloons) and in space. The world-leading instruments of tomorrow can only be designed in earnest once the physics and characteristics of core devices and sub-systems have been understood. This is the basis of the proposal. To take a lead it is important to anticipate and be proactive. A world-leading technology team must therefore be innovative, multi-skilled and cooperate freely with external partners with complementary talents. There are few institutions well-poised to be in the vanguard, but Manchester is one-as such it can play a leading role in ensuring UK astronomers' access to the next generation of cutting-edge instrumentation. At long wavelengths the dominant telescopes will be Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope in China (with which Manchester has a joint R&D programme) followed by the Square Kilometre Array. Our response for the latter has been to assemble the SKADS team (with Oxford and Cambridge as UK partners and ASTRON as the principal European partner) as a multidisciplinary partnership of radio astronomers, radio engineers and semiconductor device experts. At cm- to sub-mm wavelengths, a multiplicity of instruments will be required and so this proposal involves a coherent technology R&D programme covering both the overall design of astronomically well-motivated types of receiver array, together with the production and testing of devices and sub-systems required to deliver them. The linkage of basic research with the wider economy is now an integral part of the remit of STFC. We share this ethos since industrial links can not only bring in new ideas and expertise but also release funds from knowledge transfer, licensing and spin-offs which can benefit the pure science programme.

在过去的75年里，射电天文学在天体物理学和宇宙学中发挥了主要的发现作用。诺贝尔奖曾四次授予射电天文学家。技术创新是这一成功的核心。新型探测器装置、创新仪器设计及其组合的不断发展，产生了能够对天空进行全景多频观测以及对单个物体进行非常精确测量的仪器。现在需要更大规模、更复杂和技术更先进的接收器系统，观测将越来越多地在遥远的沙漠地点、极高海拔地点（包括气球）和空间进行。只有在了解了核心设备和子系统的物理特性和特性之后，才能认真设计未来世界领先的仪器。这是建议的基础。要发挥领导作用，重要的是要预见和积极主动。因此，一个世界领先的技术团队必须具有创新性，多技能，并与具有互补人才的外部合作伙伴自由合作。很少有机构准备好成为先锋，但曼彻斯特是一个-因此，它可以在确保英国天文学家获得下一代尖端仪器方面发挥主导作用。在长波长方面，主要的望远镜将是中国的500米孔径球面望远镜（曼彻斯特与之有一个联合研发计划），其次是平方公里阵列。我们对后者的反应是将SKADS团队（牛津和剑桥为英国合作伙伴，ASTRON为主要欧洲合作伙伴）作为射电天文学家、射电工程师和半导体器件专家的多学科合作伙伴。在厘米至亚毫米波长，将需要多种仪器，因此本提案涉及一个连贯的技术研发方案，包括天文学上有良好动机的接收器阵列类型的总体设计，以及提供这些接收器所需的设备和子系统的生产和测试。将基础研究与更广泛的经济联系起来现在是STFC职权范围的一个组成部分。我们分享这种精神，因为工业联系不仅可以带来新的想法和专业知识，而且还可以从知识转让，许可和附带利益中释放资金，从而使纯科学计划受益。

项目成果

The status of the QUIJOTE multi-frequency instrument

QUIJOTE多频仪的状态

• DOI: 10.1117/12.925349
• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Hoyland R

THE Q/U IMAGING EXPERIMENT INSTRUMENT

Q/U 成像实验仪

• DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/768/1/9
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: The Astrophysical Journal
• 作者: Bischoff C

SWIPE: a bolometric polarimeter for the Large-Scale Polarization Explorer

SWIPE：用于大型偏振探测器的测辐射热偏振计

• DOI: 10.1117/12.926569
• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: De Bernardis P

QUBIC: The QU bolometric interferometer for cosmology

• DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.01.012
• 发表时间: 2010-10
• 期刊: Astroparticle Physics
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: E. Battistelli;A. Baù;D. Bennett;L. Bergé;J. Bernard;P. Bernardis;G. Bordier;A. Bounab;E. Breelle;E. Bunn;M. Calvo;R. Charlassier;Stéphane Collin;A. Coppolecchia;A. Cruciani;G. Curran;M. Petris;L. Dumoulin;A. Gault;M. Gervasi;A. Ghribi;M. Giard;C. Giordano;Y. Giraud-Héraud;M. Gradziel;L. Guglielmi;J. Hamilton;V. Haynes;J. Kaplan;A. Korotkov;J. Landé;B. Maffei;M. Maiello;S. Malu;S. Marnieros;J. Martino;S. Masi;A. Murphy;F. Nati;C. O'sullivan;F. Pajot;A. Passerini;S. Peterzen;F. Piacentini;M. Piat;L. Piccirillo;G. Pisano;G. Polenta;D. PRELE;D. Romano;C. Rosset;M. Salatino;A. Schillaci;G. Sironi;R. Sordini;S. Spinelli;A. Tartari;P. Timbie;G. Tucker;L. Vibert;F. Voisin;R. Watson;M. Zannoni

A radio determination of the time of the New Moon

• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt2476
• 发表时间: 2013-12
• 期刊: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: Y. Hafez;L. Trojan;F. H. Albaqami;A. Almutairi;R. Davies;C. Dickinson;L. Piccirillo