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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Devaraj, Kiruthika
• Church, Sarah
• Cleary, Kieran
• Frayer, David
• Gawande, Rohit
• Goldsmith, Paul
• Gundersen, Joshua
• Harris, Andrew
• Kangaslahti, Pekka
• Readhead, Anthony
• Reeves, Rodrigo
• Samoska, Lorene
• Sieth, Matt
• Voll, Patricia

Titel

Argus: A W-band 16-pixel focal plane array for the Green Bank Telescope

Ist Teil von

• 2014 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), 2014, p.1-1

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

IEEE Xplore

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We are building Argus, a 16-pixel square-packed focal plane array that will cover the 75-115.3 GHz frequency range on the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The primary research area for Argus is the study of star formation within our Galaxy and nearby galaxies. Argus will map key molecules that trace star formation, including carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen cyanide (HCN). An additional key science area is astrochemistry, which will be addressed by observing complex molecules in the interstellar medium, and the study of formation of solar systems, which will be addressed by identifying dense pre-stellar cores and by observing comets in our solar system. Argus has a highly scalable architecture and will be a technology path finder for larger arrays. The array is modular in construction, which will allow easy replacement of malfunctioning and poorly performing components.