Medicina User Manual

32-m Antenna

Version 1

Elena Cenacchi

Alessandro Orfei, Karl-Heinz Mack, Giuseppe Maccaferri

e.cenacchi@ira.inaf.it

Last update : 30 Sep 2008

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THE RADIOTELESCOPE

1. Introduction

2. Antenna Structure

2.1 Azimuth Rail

2.2 Primary Reflector

2.3 Quadrupod and Secondary Reflector

2.3.1 Wobbling

2.4 Pointing Errors

2.5 Specification Summary

2.5.1 Observing condition

2.5.2 Surface accuracy

2.5.3 Pointing accuracy

3. Optics

3.1 Primary Focus

3.2 Cassegrain Focus

3.3 Servosystems Specification

4. Front End

4.1 Feeds and Receivers

4.2 Distribution

4.3 Control Room

5. Efficiency and System Temperature

6. VLBI

7. Observing Modes

7.1 ON-OFF Techniques

7.2 Mapping Techniques

7.3 Pulsar

8. Back End

8.1 Spectrometers

8.1.1 Arcos

8.1.2 Mspec0

8.2 Continuum

8.2.1 Mark IV

8.3 Polarimeter

8.4 Pulsar

8.4.1 SPEX

8.5 VLBI

8.5.1 Mark V

8.5.2 e-VLBI

 

 

9. Remote Control

USER'S INTERFACE

10. Introduction

10.1 Control panels

10.1.1 SCU

10.1.2 ANTM5

10.1.3 ACU TCL

10.1.4 SXKL

10.2 Operator Input : Field System Commands

10.2.1 The most used commands

        12.2 Output Panel

13.1 Single Source

13.2 Schedule (Sources List)

13.3 BLAZAR Monitoring Observer's Guide

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