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* Eight single pixel receivers A,B,C,D, and the 3x3 dual-polarisation HERA receiver are installed in the [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/telescope/telescopeSummary/receiver6.html receiver cabin]. | * EmirforAstronomers : '''new''' EMIR (Eight MIxer Receiver) * HeraforAstronomers : HERA 3x3 dual-polarisation 1mm receiver * AbcdforAstronomers : '''old''' ABCD receivers |
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* Four of the 8 A,B,C,D receivers can be used simultaneously. HERA cannot be combined with other receivers. * [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/telescope/telescopeSummary/receiver3.html Plots of the receiver characteristics taken 2007] ||'''Rx''' ||#||'''Pol'''|||||||||| '''Rx combinations''' ||'''tuning range''' || '''Trx''' || '''IF''' || '''IF Bw''' || '''Gim''' || '''Rem.''' || || || || || || || || || ||'''[GHz]''' || '''[K]''' || '''[GHz]''' || '''[GHz]''' || '''[dB]''' || || ||A100 || 1|| V || X || || X || || ||(72-)80.0-115.5 || 60-80 || 1.5 || 0.5 || >20 || '''1. '''|| ||B100 || 1|| H || X || || || X || ||(72-)81.0-115.5 || 60-85 || 1.5 || 0.5 || >20 || '''1.'''|| ||C150 || 1|| V || || X || || X || ||130-183 || 70-125 || 4 || 1 || 15-25 || || ||D150 || 1|| H || || X || X || || ||130-183 || 80-125 || 4 || 1 || 08-17 || || ||A230 || 1|| V || X || || X || || ||197-266 || 85-150 || 4 || 1 || 12-17 || || ||B230 || 1|| H || X || || || X || ||197-266 || 95-160 || 4 || 1 || 12-17 || || ||C270 || 1|| V || || X || || X || ||241-281 || 125-250 || 4 || 1 || 10-20 || '''2.'''|| ||D270 || 1|| H || || X || X || || ||241-281 || 150-250 || 4 || 1 || 9-13 || '''2.'''|| ||HERA1 || 9|| H || || || || || X || 215-272 || 110-380 || 4 || 1 || ~10 || '''2.,3.'''|| ||HERA2 || 9|| V || || || || || X || 215-241 || 120-340 || 4 || 1 || ~10 || '''2.,3.'''|| '''Remarks:''' 1. Using a special external LO, frequencies down to 77 GHz can be measured with good sideband rejection. For frequencies below 77 GHz, the sideband recection becomes weaker, and the sideband ratio reaches unity at 72 GHz. [http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/PV/lowfreqs/report.ps.gz Test report of 2004], [http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/PV/lowfreqs/spectra.html Test spectra] 1. Noise increasing with frequency 1. [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/HeraWebPage More information on HERA ] [#beginOfPage Back to top] |
* [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/groups/receiver/receiver.html Web pages of the IRAM/Granada receiver group] |
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Two large field bolometer cameras are installed: '''MAMBO1''' with 37 pixels, and '''MAMBO2''' with 117 pixels ([http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/bolometer/#mamgo MAx-Planck Millimeter BOlometer Array]). Usually MAMBO2 is in use. Both cameras work at 1.2mm wavelength, the HPBW is 11 arcsec, pixel spacing is 20 arcsec, and the sensitivity is 1.5mJy. This is the rms after 10 minutes integration (normal bolometric conditions) with skynoise removal. See [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/MamboWebPage the MAMBO page for details.] | Two large field bolometer cameras are installed: '''MAMBO1''' with 37 pixels, and '''MAMBO2''' with 117 pixels ([http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/bolometer/#mamgo MAx-Planck Millimeter BOlometer Array]). Usually MAMBO2 is in use. Both cameras work at 1.2mm wavelength, the HPBW is 11", pixel spacing is 20", and the sensitivity is 1.5mJy. This is the rms after 10 minutes integration (normal bolometric conditions) with skynoise removal. See [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/MamboWebPage the MAMBO page for details.] |
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* Below you find the most recent values for the forward and beam efficiencies. | Iram30mEfficiencies |
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* IRAM Newsletter 8/05: [http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/ARN/aug05/node6.html Telescope Efficiencies measured in March 2005]. * Historic values: [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/telescope/telescopeSummary/beam_effis.html Plot of efficiencies against frequency, measured in 2000], [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/telescope/telescopeSummary/effi_history.html Compilation of efficiencies obtained in the past till 2001]. || freq || HPBW || Beff || S/TA* || Feff || || (GHz) || (arcsec) || (%) || (Jy/K) || (%) || || || (1) || (2) || (3) || (4) || ||72 (extrapolated) || 34 || 79 || 6.0 || 95 || ||77 (extrapolated) || 32 || 79 || 6.0 || 95 || ||86 ||29 || 78 || 6.0 || 95 || ||110 || 22 || 75 || 6.3 || 95 || ||145 || 17 || 69 || 6.7 || 93 || ||170 || 14.5 || 65 || 7.1 || 93 || ||210 || 12 || 57 || 7.9 || 91 || ||235 || 10.5 || 52 || 8.7 || 91 || ||260 || 9.5 || 46 || 9.5 || 88 || ||279 || 9 || 42 || 10.4 || 88 || 1. The '''half power beam width, HPBW''', can be well fitted by: HPBW/arcsec = 2460/freq/GHz. 1. '''Main beam efficiency Beff'''. The data can be well fit by a Ruze function Beff = 1.2 epsilon exp[-(4pi R sigma/ lambda)^2] with sigma being the rms value of the telescope optics deformations, R the reduction factor for a steep main reflector, epsilon the aperture efficieny of the perfect telescope and lambda the wavelength in mm. The data can be fit by R*sigma = 0.07 and epsilon = 0.69. The aperture efficiency of the 30-m telescope can be obtained using eta_a=B_eff*0.79 1. '''Point source sensitivity S/T_A*.''' For a Gaussian source and beam size, and a source which is much smaller than the beam, S(Jy)/T_mb(K)=8.18E-7*theta(")**2*nu(GHz)**2 (Rohlfs & Wilson, Tools of Radioastronomy (2. ed., Eq. 8.20). Using the approximation in 1) yields for the 30-m telescope S/T_mb=4.95 Jy/K. S/T_A* is obtained by multiplying 4.95 J/K with F_eff/B_eff. 1. '''Forward efficiency Feff''': The values for Feff are valid after the 12th of December 2000 when a new reflecting ring was put around the secondary mirror. [#beginOfPage Back to top] |
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|| || Type || Resolution || Bandwidth || Receiver (width mode) || Remark || || '''1 MHz''' || Filterbank || 1 MHz || 4x256 MHz, 2x512 MHz, or, 1x1GHz || A100, B100 (narrow), A230, B230, C150, D150, C270, D270 (narrow or wide) || (1) || || '''4 MHz''' || Filterbanks || 4 MHz || 9x1GHz || either HERA1 or HERA2 (wide), all other SIS receivers (wide) except 3mm || (2) || || '''WILMA''' || Autocorrelator || 2 MHz || 18x930 MHz || HERA (wide) || (3) || || '''VESPA''' || Autocorrelator || 3.3 kHz-1.25 MHz || 10-512 MHz || all SIS receives incl. HERA (narrow) || (4) || || '''XPOL''' || VESPA || 40kHz-1.25MHz || 120-640MHz || A100 and B100 (narrow) || (5) || || '''ABBA1''' || || || || || (6) || || '''ABBA2''' || || || || || (6) || 1. '''1MHz FB''': max 4 parts; series parallel or mixed mode possible; using the filterbanks with 1GHz bandwidth excludes the use of the AC or the 100 MHz FB with the same rx. The FB can be shifted in multiples of 32 MHz from the center frequency of the connected rx. 1. '''4MHz FB''': max 9 parts; use of the 4 MHz FBs excludes the use of the AC on the same receiver. Frequency switching not available. While the channel spacing is 4MHz, the 3dB width is 5.4 MHz and the noise equivalent width is 6.5 MHz 1. '''WILMA''': [http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/TA/backend/veleta/wilma/index.htm The Wideband Line Multiple Autocorrelator] 1. '''VESPA''': Up to 18000 channels. In connection with HERA (9 pixels) the following combinations of resolution (kHz) and bandwidth (MHz) are possible: (20/40), (40,80), (80, 160), (320,320), (1250, 640); [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/otherDocuments/manuals/vespa_ug.ps VESPA User Guide (2002)], [http://www.iram.es/IRAMFR/ARN/dec02/node6.html Summary in IRAM Newsletter No. 54 (Dec 2002)], local contact: G. Paubert 1. '''XPOL''': Line and continuum polarimetry is possible at the 30m using a new type of IF polarimeter designated XPOL. The central feature of XPOL is the correlator VESPA where the IF signals from two orthogonally polarized receivers are cross correlated to determine the four Stokes parameters. A manual is in preparation, contact: C. Thum 1. '''ABBA1 and ABBA2''' (Adc Bolometer Backend) are the bolometer backends, i.e. dedicated PCs connected to the bolometers. |
* Backends for the new EMIR receiver, HERA, and MAMBO: BackendsForEmirHeraMambo * Backends for the old ABCD receivers (till mid March 2009): BackendsForAbcdReceivers |
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|| '''Track''' || || || || X || || '''ONOFF''' || X || || X || || || '''OTFMAP''' (Heterodyne) || X || || || X || |
|| '''Track''' || || || || fsw || || '''ONOFF''' || psw || || wsw || || || '''OTFMAP''' (Heterodyne) || otf/psw || || || otf/fsw || || '''Raster''' || || || || || |
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* for more details on observing and switching modes, see the section "NCS explained" in the ''paKo book'' at: [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/documents/ncs30mPako/Current/PDF/pako.pdf] | * for more details on observing and switching modes, see the section "NCS explained" in the [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/documents/ncs30mPako/Current/PDF/pako.pdf pako cookbook] |
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* the combination of ONOFF with swTotal is also sometimes called "Position Switching". (swTotal stands for total power observations without switching, while still using the internal synchronization signals.) | * '''swTotal''' stands for total power observations without switching, while still using the internal synchronization signals. * '''swBeam''' beam switched observations using the chopper wheel on mirror M4. * '''swWobbler''' switching the wobbling secondary (M2). The maximum allowed throw is +/-2'. * '''swFrequency''' switching the local oscillator frequency |
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* '''Position switching''': only relative off-source reference positions possible. * '''Wobbler switching''': with wobbling secondary: max. 240" throw at 0.25 Hz, standard phase duration 0.5 Hz. * '''Frequency switching''': max. 45 km/s throw up to about 10 Hz. * '''On the fly mapping (Heterodyne)''': Works with all receivers and backends, typical dump rate 0.5 to 10 Hz. |
* '''Position switching (psw)''': the combination of ONOFF with swTotal is called "Position Switching". Only relative off-source reference positions are possible. * '''Wobbler switching (wsw)''': often called '''double beam switching mode''': max. 240" throw at 0.25 Hz, standard phase duration 0.5 Hz. * '''Frequency switching (fsw)''': max. 45 km/s throw up to about 10 Hz. * '''On the fly mapping (Heterodyne)''': Works with all receivers and backends, typical dump rate 0.5 to 10 Hz. ''OTF can be observed without reference position, e.g. for galaxies, and MIRA is able to use emission-free OTF data as reference!'' * '''Raster mapping''' is at present '''not offered'''. The observer may want to use eigher psw or otf instead. |
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== Weather station and Taumeter == * [http://mrt-lx3.iram.es/tau/meteo-main.php Weather station] *Wind velocity and direction measured on hill behind the telescope * Outside temperature and relative humidity measured at base of telescope. In case the sensors are frozen, the operator will use a mobile weather station and enter values by hand into the drive program. * Pressure measured at entrance to control building * [http://mrt-lx3.iram.es/tau/taumeter-main-db.php Taumeter] does regular skydips to inform the observer about the sky transmission near '''225 GHz'''. The local oscillator works at 225GHz. The IF is 1.5GHz and the bandwidth is 0.5GHz. It is a double-sideband Schottky receiver. |
This page summarizes the present instrumentation installed at the 30m observatory. BR The current system status is described [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/TelescopeSystemStatus on a second page].
Frontends
Heterodyne Receivers
EmirforAstronomers : new EMIR (Eight MIxer Receiver)
HeraforAstronomers : HERA 3x3 dual-polarisation 1mm receiver
AbcdforAstronomers : old ABCD receivers
[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/groups/receiver/receiver.html Web pages of the IRAM/Granada receiver group]
Bolometers
Two large field bolometer cameras are installed: MAMBO1 with 37 pixels, and MAMBO2 with 117 pixels ([http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/bolometer/#mamgo MAx-Planck Millimeter BOlometer Array]). Usually MAMBO2 is in use. Both cameras work at 1.2mm wavelength, the HPBW is 11", pixel spacing is 20", and the sensitivity is 1.5mJy. This is the rms after 10 minutes integration (normal bolometric conditions) with skynoise removal. See [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/MamboWebPage the MAMBO page for details.]
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Telescope efficiencies and beam widths
Backends
Backends for the new EMIR receiver, HERA, and MAMBO: BackendsForEmirHeraMambo
Backends for the old ABCD receivers (till mid March 2009): BackendsForAbcdReceivers
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Control System
The 30-m telescope runs under the New Control System (NCS), see:
[http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/ncs30m/ NCS documentation] [http://mrt-lx1/mainWiki/ Wiki with up-to-date Notes on NCS]
Observing modes and source offsets in:
- Projection "Radio" (same offsets as in old CS) in Equatorial J2000.0
- "true angle" horizontal
- Nasmyth (receiver offsets)
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Observing Modes and Switching Modes
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for more details on observing and switching modes, see the section "NCS explained" in the [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/documents/ncs30mPako/Current/PDF/pako.pdf pako cookbook]
swTotal stands for total power observations without switching, while still using the internal synchronization signals.
swBeam beam switched observations using the chopper wheel on mirror M4.
swWobbler switching the wobbling secondary (M2). The maximum allowed throw is +/-2'.
swFrequency switching the local oscillator frequency
Pointing: Using nearby (within 10 degree) pointing sources, <1" accuracy can be obtained; with absolute ("blind") pointing, the accuracy is about 2" rms, the receivers are aligned within 1.7" (see the [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/TelescopeSystemStatus Telescope Status page] for current values). Checking the pointing and alignment (using e.g. a planet) is the responsibility of the observer.
Focus: residual errors of <1mm may need correction. There are systematic differences of upto 0.6mm in the focus of the different receivers (cf. [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/TelescopeSystemStatus Telescope Status page]). The focus is subject to change especially during sunrise and sunset.
Position switching (psw): the combination of ONOFF with swTotal is called "Position Switching". Only relative off-source reference positions are possible.
Wobbler switching (wsw): often called double beam switching mode: max. 240" throw at 0.25 Hz, standard phase duration 0.5 Hz.
Frequency switching (fsw): max. 45 km/s throw up to about 10 Hz.
On the fly mapping (Heterodyne): Works with all receivers and backends, typical dump rate 0.5 to 10 Hz. OTF can be observed without reference position, e.g. for galaxies, and MIRA is able to use emission-free OTF data as reference!
Raster mapping is at present not offered. The observer may want to use eigher psw or otf instead.
Polarimetry: using VESPA as an IF polarimeter
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Weather station and Taumeter
[http://mrt-lx3.iram.es/tau/meteo-main.php Weather station]
- Wind velocity and direction measured on hill behind the telescope
- Outside temperature and relative humidity measured at base of telescope. In case the sensors are frozen, the operator will use a mobile weather station and enter values by hand into the drive program.
- Pressure measured at entrance to control building
[http://mrt-lx3.iram.es/tau/taumeter-main-db.php Taumeter] does regular skydips to inform the observer about the sky transmission near 225 GHz. The local oscillator works at 225GHz. The IF is 1.5GHz and the bandwidth is 0.5GHz. It is a double-sideband Schottky receiver.
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Old [http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/telescope/telescopeSummary/telescope_summary.html Telescope System Summary page of September 07]
This is page http://www.iram.es/IRAMES/mainWiki/TelescopeSystemSummary moderated by Carsten Kramer