J1  New Telescopes, Techniques, and Observations

Wednesday, January 9  13:20-17:20  Room 265

Session Chairs:  David DeBoer, Richard Bradley

13:20  J1-1  THE VLA LOW BAND SYSTEM: A NEW TOOL FOR EXPLORING THE LOW-FREQUENCY SKY, INCLUDING THE RADIO TRANSIENT UNIVERSE

Sean E. Cutchin*1, Namir E. Kassim2, Tracy E. Clarke2, Brian C. Hicks2, Frazer N. Owen3, Rick A. Perley3, Gregory B. Taylor4, Frederick A. Jenet5

1NRC Postdoc at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
2U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
3National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM
4University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
5University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, TX


13:40  J1-2  DESIGN OF A MULTIBEAM SPECTROMETER FOR THE GREEN BANK TELESCOPE

John Ford*1, Marty Bloss1, Patrick Brandt1, Hong Chen2, Jayanth Chennamangalam3, Jeff Cobb2, Ramon Creager1, Paul Demorest4, Glenn Jones5, Randy McCullough1, Jason Ray1, D. Anish Roshi4, Simon Scott2, Andrew Siemion2, Mark Wagner2, Galen Watts1, Dan Werthimer2, Mark Whitehead1

1National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV
2University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
3West Virginia University, Morgantown,WV
4National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA
5Columbia University, New York,NY


14:00  J1-3  THE AUSTRALIA TELESCOPE NATIONAL FACILITY - RECENT UPGRADES AND FUTURE PLANS

Douglas C. -J. Bock*, Graeme J. Carrad

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Marsfield, NSW, Australia


14:20  J1-4  THE AUSTRALIAN SKA PATHFINDER - AN UPDATE

Antony E. T. Schinckel*

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Epping, NSW, Australia


14:40  J1-5  THE MICROWAVE RECEIVER UPGRADE FOR THE GGAO 12M GEODETIC VLBI SYSTEM

Christopher J. Beaudoin*1, Brian E. Corey1, Alan R. Whitney1, Mark Derome1, Peter Bolis1, Spencer Cappallo1, Chopo Ma2, Tom Clark2, Bill Petrachenko3

1Haystack Observatory, MIT, Westford,MA
2Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt,MD
3NRCan, Penticton,BC, Canada


15:20  J1-6  ARRAY CONFIGURATION AND TOTAL POWER CALIBRATION FOR THE LARGE-APERTURE EXPERIMENT TO DETECT THE DARK AGES

Frank K. Schinzel*, Joseph Craig

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico


15:40  J1-7  DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA CONCEPTS FOR THE DARK AGES RADIO EXPLORER MISSION

Deborah A. Sigel*1, Vinh M. Bach1, Mark W. Thomson1, Richard F. Bradley2, Joseph Lazio1, Jack O. Burns3

1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
2National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA
3University of Colorado, Boulder, CO


16:00  J1-8  DACOTA: THE DENSE ARRAY FOR COSMOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS

David R. DeBoer*1, Geoffrey C. Bower1, Garrett Keating1, Richard Plambeck1, Tzu-Ching Chang2, Paul T. P. Ho2, Daniel Marrone3

1Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2Academica-Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan
3Astronomy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ


16:20  J1-9  EXPLORING THE OBSTACLES OF CO EOR MEASUREMENTS: AN ARCHIVAL ANALYSIS OF SZA DATA

Garrett K. Keating*1, Geoffrey C. Bower1, Daniel Marrone2, David DeBoer1

1Radio Astronomy Lab, Univ of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ


16:40  J1-10  DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RADIO SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

Andrew P. V. Siemion*1, Dave Anderson1, Henry Chen2, Jeff Cobb1, Jim Cordes3, Paul Demorest4, Terry Filiba1, Abhimat Gautam1, Andrew Howard1, Eric Korpela1, Glen Langston4, Matt Lebofsky1, Ron Maddalena4, Geoff Marcy1, Laura Spitler3, Jill Tarter5, Mark Wagner1, Dan Werthimer1

1University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
3Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
4National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV
5SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA


17:00  J1-11  PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF CYCLIC SPECTROSCOPY TO PULSAR SIGNALS

Glenn Jones*1, Jim Cordes2, Paul B. Demorest3, Tim Dolch4, Maura McLaughlin5, Nipuni Palliyaguru5, Dan Stinebring4

1NRAO / Columbia University, New York, NY
2Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
3NRAO, Charlottesville, VA
4Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
5West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV