Advanced Technologies for Radio Telescopes in Mexico and the UK

墨西哥和英国的射电望远镜先进技术

• 批准号: ST/P003168/1
• 负责人: Angela Taylor
• 金额: $ 78.67万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FP003168%2F1
• 关键词: Advanced; Technologies; Radio; Telescopes; Mexico

This project has two main components. In the first, electronics hardware that has been developed in the UK for a large radio telescope project, the Square Kilometre Array, will be used on a new Mexican telescope, the Large Millimetre Telescope (LMT), situated on a mountain top in Mexico. The grant will pay for three researchers, one in the UK and two in Mexico, to develop software to process data from two high frequency radio receivers on the LMT. This will allow more detailed observations of radio emission from stars and star-forming regions in our own Galaxy as well as in external galaxies. More importantly, as this is an international development project, it will train the Mexican scientists in the use of the latest high-speed digital technology, which has applications both in astronomy, in science generally, and in commercial applications. The second part of the project will focus on the use of redundant satellite communications antennas for radio astronomy. Mexican engineers will build a feed horn (the component in a large antenna that actually captures the radio waves) for an antenna in the UK that is being converted from communications to astronomy use. With the advice of UK scientists, they will also study how to convert a similar antenna in Mexico. This should lead to the possibility of a complete network of new radio telescope in Mexico and Latin America, co-operating with similar arrays in Europe and Africa.

该项目有两个主要组成部分。首先，在英国开发的电子硬件是针对大型射电望远镜项目（平方公里阵列），将用于新墨西哥望远镜，大型毫米望远镜（LMT），位于墨西哥的山顶上。该赠款将为三名研究人员，一名在英国和墨西哥的两名研究人员付费，以开发来自LMT上两个高频无线电接收器的数据。这将允许对我们自己的星系以及外部星系中的恒星和恒星形成区域的无线电发射进行更详细的观察。更重要的是，由于这是一个国际开发项目，它将培训墨西哥科学家使用最新的高速数字技术，该技术在天文学，一般和商业应用中都有应用。该项目的第二部分将重点介绍使用冗余卫星通信天线进行射电天文学。墨西哥工程师将在英国建立一个饲料号角（实际上捕获无线电波的大型天线中的组件），该天线正在从通信转换为天文学使用。在英国科学家的建议下，他们还将研究如何在墨西哥转换类似的天线。这应该导致在墨西哥和拉丁美洲建立完整的新射电望远镜网络，并在欧洲和非洲与类似的阵列合作。

项目成果

Development of General-purpose Digital Backend for Single-dish Centimetre and Millimetre-wave Telescopes

单口径厘米波和毫米波望远镜通用数字后端开发

• DOI: 10.23919/at-ap-rasc54737.2022.9814190
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Liu C

A born again 32-meter radio telescope for Mexico

墨西哥重生的 32 米射电望远镜

• DOI: 10.1117/12.2630417
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Kurtz S

Characterizing the performance of high-speed data converters for RFSoC-based radio astronomy receivers

表征基于 RFSoC 的射电天文接收器的高速数据转换器的性能

• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3895
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: Liu C