Receiver

FINER受信システムの仕様(2023年6月現在)

General
バンド数2 (アルマ2のバンド4+5受信機,およびバンド6+7受信機に相当)
1バンドあたりのビーム数1
1バンドあたりの偏波数2
1バンドあたりのサイドバンド数2
項目低周波バンド(Band 4+5)高周波バンド(Band 6+7)
観測周波数(RF)125−210 GHz210−350 GHz
中間周波数(IF)4-20.48 GHz4-20.48 GHz
受信機雑音温度45 K75 K

システムの概要

FINER consists of low- and high-frequency band SIS receivers, each of which covers the ALMA’s Band 4+5 (120-210 GHz) and Band 6+7 (210-350 GHz), respectively. The front-end receivers are followed by the back-end spectrometers with wide-band and high-dispersion modes.

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Figure. Block diagram.

光学系

A dual-polarization single beam from each receiver band is coupled with the LMT’s optics. The FINER warm optics is planed to have a beam-switching mechanism which allows a quick (~1 Hz) position switching for atmospheric removal. The spatial resolution (i.e. PSF size) is 7 arcsec X (frequency/200 GHz)^-1, depending on observing frequency.

フロントエンド受信機

The front-end receiver exploits the high critical current density SIS mixer technology (Kojima et al. 2017, 2020) for ALMA 2 (wideband sensitivity upgrade, WSU), which allows us to have a wide instantaneous frequency coverage.

バックエンド分光計

FINER has two sets of digital spectrometers with different spectral resolutions and bandwidths.

  • Wide-band spectrometers (DRS4, ELECS Inc.). Analog IF input is digitized by a set of 3-bit 20.48 GSa/s analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), each of which offers a 10.24 GHz bandwidth with a 20 MHz spectral resolution.
  • High-resolution spectrometers (XFFTS, RPG). spectroscopy is offered by the array of 2.5-GHz digital spectrometers, XFFTS (RPG).

データ処理

技術文書

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Proposal1-May-2023(in prep.)
Overview1-May-2023(in prep.)