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Papers and Reports on Calibration of the IRAM 30m telescope

• Andre & Cernicharo 1997, IRAM report on Calibration Skydips: skytip.zip

• Baars, Hooghoudt, Mezger, deJonge, 1987, "The IRAM 30m millimeter radio telescope on Pico Veleta, Spain", A&A, 175 319

• Baars, Greve, Hein, Morris, Penalver, Thum, 1994, "Design parameters and measured performance of the IRAM 30m millimeter radio telescope", IEEE, 82, 687

• Belloche et al. 2004 Test observations at frequencies below 80 GHz.

• Greve et al. 1994, "Astigmatism in reflector antennas: measurement and correction", IEEE Trans. Ant. Propag. AP-42, 1345

• Greve, Panis, Thum, 1996, "The Pointing of the IRAM 30m Telescope", A&A, 115, 379

• Greve, Lefloch, Penalver 1996, "Coma correction of a wobbling subreflector", ITAP, 44, 1642

• Greve, Baars, Penalver, Lefloch 1996 "Near–focus active optics: An inexpensive method to improve millimeter–wavelength radio telescopes" Radio Science, Vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1053-1065 greve_penalver_1996_near_focus.pdf

• Greve, Neri, Sievers 1998, "The gain-elevation correction of the IRAM 30m telescope", A&A, 132, 413

• Greve, Kramer, Wild 1998, "The beam pattern of the IRAM 30m Telescope", A&A, 133, 271

• Greve, Bremer, Penalver 2002, "IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 53, No.2, February 2005" paper

• Greve & Morris 2005, "Repetitive radio reflector surface deformations", IEEE Trans.Ant.Propagat., 53, 2123

• Greve, Morris, Penalver, Thum, Bremer 2010, "The Beam Pattern of Reflector Antennas with Buckled Rectangular Panels", IEEE, in press
• Greve, Penalver et al. 2010, "Improvement of the IRAM 30m telescope beam pattern", in prep.
• Greve, Bremer 2010, "Thermal Design and Thermal Behaviour of Radio Telescopes and their Enclosures", published by Springer in 2010

• Guelin, Wild, Kramer 1995, Cookbook formulae for observing time estimates

• Guilloteau, IRAM report on Amplitude Calibration of the PdBI: pdbi-amp-cal.pdf

• Guilloteau 2000, ALMA Memo on "The accuracy of Single Load Calibration" by S.Guilloteau (22.10.2002): alma_XXX_atm.pdf

• Kramer 1997, IRAM report on Calibration of 30m data: kramer_1997_cali_rep.pdf

• Kramer 2006, Spatial response framework document of the HIFI/Herschel Calibration group: kramer_2006_spatial_response_framework_v1.8.pdf

• Kramer, Moreno, Greve 2008, Long-term observations of Uranus and Neptune at 90 GHz with the IRAM 30m telescope - (1985 -- 2005) astroph

• Kramer, Penalver, Greve 2013, "Improvement of the IRAM 30m telescope beam pattern": eb2013-v8.2.pdf

• Morris et al. 2008, "Surface adjustment of the IRAM 30m telescope": morris_2008_30msurface_IET_2.pdf

• Morris et al. 2008, "Test observations of Cloudsat", Cloudsat

• Penalver, 2013, IRAM internal report on beam blockage and skydip measurements penalver-2013-BeamBlocking.pdf

• Penalver, 2016, IRAM internal report on Antenna Gain depending on Wobbler Tilt 160418_WobblerGain.pdf

• Plathner, 1997, "Studies on 30m panel frames under thermal gradient", IRAM Working Report, No. 244, IRAM France

• Thum et al. 1995, "Frequency switched observations at the 30m" thum-1995-fsw.pdf

• Ungerechts et al. 2001, "New Control System for the 30m: Feasability of new observing modes" ncs30mStudyNewOM.pdf

• Wiesemeyer & Thum, 10-August-2010, "Polarimetry with EMIR/XPOL", Commissioning Report wiesemeyer-2010-polarimetry-v3.pdf

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