Medicina User Manual

THE RADIOTELESCOPE

2.1 Azimuth Rail

2.2 Primary Reflector

2.3 Quadrupod and Secondary Reflector

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
4.4 Frequency Agility

5. Efficiency and System Temperature

6. VLBI

7. Observing Modes

7.1 ON-OFF Techniques

7.2 Mapping Techniques

8. Back End

8.1 Spectrometers

8.1.1 XARCOS

8.1.2 (Arcos)
8.1.3 (MSpec0)

8.2 Continuum

8.2.1 Analog large-bandwidth backend
8.2.2 Mark IV

8.3 VLBI

8.3.1 Mark IV-V

8.3.2 e-VLBI

USER'S INTERFACE

9. *New*: ESCS, a system for single-dish observations (instructions for continuum and spectrometry observations, both on-site or remotely controlled)

Other options (exploiting the Field System and old back-ends, not supported by ESCS and not officially offered)

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

11. Preliminary Operations

12. MSpec0

12.1 Input Panel

12.2 Output Panel

13. Total Power (Mark IV)

13.1 Single Source

13.2 Schedule (Sources List)

13.3 BLAZAR Monitoring Observer's Guide

14. ARCOS

APPENDIX A : Safety Rules