5 Jan 2004, Boulder CO URSI The Current Status of the Green Bank Telescope.

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5 Jan 2004, Boulder CO URSI The Current Status of the Green Bank Telescope

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Telescope Structure

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Unblocked Aperture

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Active Surface

URSI 5 Jan 2004 GBT Sensitivity

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Telescope Optics

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Front-end Status

URSI 5 Jan 2004 GBT Receiver System Temperatures

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Back-end Status ACS BCPM GBPP DCR CCB SP PFS

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Current Pointing Performance Blind Pointing: (1 point/focus) Offset Pointing: (90 min) Continuous Tracking: (30 min) Benign Conditions: (1) Exclude 10:00  18:00 (2) Wind < 2.5 m/s

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Half-power Track (14 GHz)

URSI 5 Jan 2004 GBT Sidelobes (Cygnus 800 MHz)

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Active Surface Performance at 20 GHz

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Q band (43 GHz) Performance

URSI 5 Jan 2004 GBT Observing Summary (2003)

URSI 5 Jan 2004

Supplemental Material

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Azimuth (40 degrees per minute)

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Elevation (20 degrees per minute)

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Front-end Status ReceiverOperating RangeStatus Prime Focus 1290—920 MHzCommissioned Prime Focus 2910—1230 MHzCommissioned L Band1.15—1.73 MHzCommissioned S Band1.73—2.60 MHzCommissioned C Band3.95—5.85 MHzCommissioned X Band8.2—10.0 MHzCommissioned Ku Band12.4—15.4 MHzCommissioned K Band18—26.5 MHzCommissioned Ka Band26—40 MHzUnder Construction Q Band40—50 MHzPartially Commissioned W Band68—92 MHzOn Hold Penn Array MHzUnder Construction

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Back-end Status: Spectroscopy GBT Spectrometer (3 and 9-level correlator): Bandwidths: 12.5, 50, 200, 800 MHz Modes: 8 x 800 MHz; 32 x 50 MHz Resolution: MHz Spectral Processor (32 bit FT spectrometer): Bandwidths: – 40 MHz Modes: 2 x 1024 x 40 MHz; 8 x 256 x 10 MHz Resolution: MHz

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Back-end Status: Continuum Digital Continuum Receiver: V/F converter into 28 bit counters 16 inputs; 10 switching phases 100 nano-sec phase time resolution Caltech Continuum Back-end: (under construction) For Ka and W-band receivers Full bandwidth 10 kHz switching

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Back-end Status: Pulsar Spectrometer: Bandwidth: 800 MHz Data rate: 25 MB per second Spectral Processor: Bandwidth: 40 MHz Pulsar timing Berkeley Caltech Pulsar Machine (BCPM1, BCPM2): Bandwidth: 23 – 160 MHz Green Bank-Berkeley Pulsar Processor (GBPP): Digital de-dispersion; cross pol

URSI 5 Jan 2004 Back-end Status: Misc Portable Fast Sampler: bi-static radar Sample Rate: 20 MHz

URSI 5 Jan 2004 GBT Sensitivity (60 second integration time) Spectral Line SensitivityBandwidthRMS Noise 1420 MHz (HI)1 km/s0.06 K (32 mJy) 22 GHz (H2O)1 km/s0.03 K (18 mJy) 43 GHz (SiO)1 km/s0.03 K (15 mJy) 89 GHz (HCN)1 km/s0.04 K (40 mJy) Continuum Sensitivity 14 GHz3 GHz55 micro-Jy 90 GHz7 GHz270 micro-Jy 90 GHz20 GHz120 micro-Jy