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Performance of FAST with an Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Receiver at 500-3300 MHz

Authors :
Zhang, Chuan-Peng
Jiang, Peng
Zhu, Ming
Pan, Jun
Cheng, Cheng
Liu, Hong-Fei
Zhu, Yan
Sun, Chun
Collaboration, FAST
Source :
Res. Astron. Astrophys. 23 075016 (2023)
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has been running for several years. A new Ultra-Wide Bandwidth (UWB) receiver, simultaneously covering 500-3300 MHz, has been mounted in the FAST feed cabin and passed a series of observational tests. The whole UWB band is separated into four independent bands. Each band has 1048576 channels in total, resulted in a spectral resolution of 1 kHz. At 500-3300 MHz, the antenna gain is around 14.3-7.7 K/Jy, the aperture efficiency is around 0.56-0.30, the system temperature is around 88-130 K, and the HPBW is around 7.6-1.6 arcmin. The measured standard deviation of pointing accuracy is better than ~7.9 arcsec, when zenith angle (ZA) is within 26.4deg. The sensitivity and stability of the UWB receiver are confirmed to satisfy expectation by spectral observations, e.g., HI and OH. The FAST UWB receiver already has a good performance for taking sensitive observations in various scientific goals.<br />Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, published in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Res. Astron. Astrophys. 23 075016 (2023)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2304.11895
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/acd58e