J1  New Telescopes, Techniques, and Observations

Wednesday, January 8  08:20-12:00  Room 265

Session Chairs:  David DeBoer, Richard Bradley

08:20  J1-1  MEASUREMENT OF ABSOLUTE FLUX DENSITIES FOR METER-WAVELENGTH CALIBRATION SOURCES

Richard H. Tillman*, Steven W. Ellingson

Bradley Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA


08:40  J1-2  AN ENGINEERING PROTOTYPE FOR THE DARE (DARK AGES RADIO EXPLORER)

Abhirup Datta*1, Richard Bradley2, Bang D. Nhan1, Jack O. Burns1

1Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, Boulder, CO
2National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA


09:00  J1-3  CHASING COSMIC DAWN: THE LEDA EXPERIMENT

Danny C. Price*, Jonathon Kocz, Benjamin R. Barsdell, Lincoln J. Greenhill

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA


09:20  J1-4  THE CHIME (CANADIAN HYDROGEN INTENSITY MAPPING EXPERIMENT) INSTRUMENT: A NOVEL CYLINDRICAL INTERFEROMETER

Kevin M. Bandura*, Chime Collaboration

Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CANADA


09:40  J1-5  LEKID-BASED INSTRUMENTS FOR COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POLARIMETRY

Glenn Jones*

NRAO / Columbia University, New York, NY


10:20  J1-6  REPORT ON PROGRESS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MMIC RECEIVERS FOR OBSERVATION IN THE 3-MM BAND AT CARMA

James W. Lamb*1, Michael Laxen1, Jacob W. Kooi2, Kieran Cleary2, Rodrigo Reeves2, Rohit Gawande2, Richard L. Plambeck3

1OVRO, California Institute of Technology, Big Pine, CA
2Radio Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
3Radio Astronomy, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA


10:40  J1-7  ARGUS: A W-BAND 16-PIXEL FOCAL PLANE ARRAY FOR THE GREEN BANK TELESCOPE

Kiruthika Devaraj*1, Sarah Church1, Kieran Cleary2, David Frayer3, Rohit Gawande2, Paul Goldsmith4, Joshua Gundersen5, Andrew Harris6, Pekka Kangaslahti4, Anthony Readhead2, Rodrigo Reeves2, Lorene Samoska4, Matt Sieth1, Patricia Voll1

1Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2Astronomy Department, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
3National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV
4Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
5University of Miami, Miami, FL
6University of Maryland, College Park, MD


11:00  J1-8  SETI SEARCHES FOR RADIO TRANSIENTS FROM KEPLER FIELD PLANETS AND ASTROPULSE CANDIDATES

Abhimat K. Gautam*, Andrew Siemion, Eric Korpela, Jeff Cobb, Matt Lebofsky, Dan Werthimer

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA


11:20  J1-9  SWARM: 4-GHZ SUBMILLIMETER CORRELATOR AND VLBI BEAMFORMER

Rurik A. Primiani*, Jonathan Weintroub

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA


11:40  J1-10  EXPERIENCES WITH THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF WIDEBAND SPECTRAL LINE AND PULSAR INSTRUMENTATION WITH CASPER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE: THE DIGITAL BACKEND SYSTEM

John Ford*1, Marty Bloss1, Joe Brandt1, Ramon Creager1, Paul Demorest1, Glenn Jones2, Jintao Luo1, Randy McCullough1, Richard Prestage1, Scott Ransom1, Jason Ray1, Galen Watts1, Mark Whitehead1

1National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV
2Columbia University, New York, NY