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NASA DSN Radio Astronomy Signal Processing Ambitions for DSN Radio Astronomy Tom Kuiper JPL - Caltech
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NASA DSN Radio Astronomy DSN Station Locations
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NASA DSN Radio Astronomy Goldstone – Madrid - Canberra
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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)
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NASA DSN Radio Astronomy 18-26 GHz Receiver Concept
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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)
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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
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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
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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.....
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