NASA DSN Radio Astronomy Signal Processing Ambitions for DSN Radio Astronomy Tom Kuiper JPL - Caltech

NASA DSN Radio Astronomy DSN Station Locations

NASA DSN Radio Astronomy Goldstone – Madrid - Canberra

NASA DSN Radio Astronomy Standard Receivers  1.6 – 1.7 GHz (70-m antennas)‏  2.2 – 2.3 GHz  8.2 – 8.6 GHz  31.5 – 32.5 GHz (not 70-m antennas)‏ Radio Astronomy Receivers  18.0 – 26.5 GHz (70- m antennas)‏  39 – 50 GHz (Madrid 34-m)‏  31 – 34 GHz (Goldstone 34-m)‏

NASA DSN Radio Astronomy GHz Receiver Concept

NASA DSN Radio Astronomy Data recorders (Standard DSN equipment)‏  MkV VLBI (500 MHz BW, post real-time processing)‏  VLBI Science Receivers ( 4x16 MHz BW, near real- time software PFB, FFT, AC)‏ Autocorrelators (Spaceborne)‏  Canberra (400 MHz, 4096 ch)‏  Madrid (500 MHz, 1024 ch)‏  Goldstone (500 MHz, 1024 ch)‏

NASA DSN Radio Astronomy Current Research Extragalactic water masers (wide bandwidth, high resolution, [two polarizations])‏ H 2 0, NH 3 (three lines), CCS [,C 3 H 2 ] in star forming regions CCS 11 GHz Zeeman effect in pre-protostellar clouds VLBI SETI

NASA DSN Radio Astronomy Future Capability Search for extragalactic water masers: two polarization beamswitching (four IFs) with 8192 ch over 400 MHz Search for RRATs and isolated bursts (400 MHz BW real-time de-dispersion and capture)‏ Giant nanosecond pulses between 18 and 26 GHz, full Stokes (de-dispersion and capture)‏ Monitor Mars electrostatic microdischarges

NASA DSN Radio Astronomy Signal Processing Roadmap 08Q4  ROACH with 1 ADC prototype development  Repair and deploy 128M ch SETI spectrometer 09Q1-2  Deploy and field test prototype at Goldstone 09Q3-4  Deploy one ROACH to each station 10Q1 ff.....