J1  Emerging Instrumentation and Techniques

Wednesday, January 6  08:20-12:00  Room 265

Session Chairs:  Steven Ellingson, Dan Marrone

08:20  J1-1  A GENERIC AND EFFICIENT "E-FIELD PARALLEL IMAGING CORRELATOR" SOFTWARE FOR NEXT-GENERATION RADIO TELESCOPES

Nithyanandan Thyagarajan*1, Adam P. Beardsley1, Judd D. Bowman1, Miguel F. Morales2

1School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


08:40  J1-2  THE EXTERNAL CALIBRATOR FOR HYDROGEN OBSERVATORIES

Daniel C. Jacobs*1, Jacob Burba1, Lauren Turner1, Abraham Neben2, Benjamin Stinnett1, Marc Leatham1, Micheal Busch1, Judd Bowman1

1School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe
2Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge


09:00  J1-3  CALIBRATING RADIO ARRAYS WITHOUT VISIBILITIES USING THE E-FIELD PARALLEL IMAGING CALIBRATION (EPICAL)

Adam P. Beardsley*1, Nithyanandan Thyagarajan1, Miguel F. Morales2, Judd D. Bowman1

1School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


09:20  J1-4  LOGNORMAL INSTRUMENTAL ERROR ARISING IN MULTISTAGE RADIO FREQUENCY RADIOMETERS

Bang D. Nhan*1,2, Richard F. Bradley2,3,4, Abhirup Datta1, Jack O. Burns1

1Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
2Central Develpoment Laboratory, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville,VA
3Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,VA
4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,VA


09:40  J1-5  CO INTENSITY MAPPING: FIRST CONSTRAINTS ON THE MOLECULAR GAS POWER SPECTRUM AT REDSHIFT 3

Daniel P. Marrone*

Astronomy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ


10:20  J1-6  IMPROVED POWER EFFICIENCY FOR CRYOGENICS AT THE VLA

Denis R. Urbain, Wes Grammer, Steven Durand*

Electronics, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM


10:40  J1-7  A NEW VHF ("4-BAND") FEED SYSTEM FOR THE VERY LARGE ARRAY

Steven W. Ellingson*

Bradley Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng., Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA


11:00  J1-8  MANUFACTURABLE CRYOGENIC SIGE LNA FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY AND SPACE COMMUNICATIONS

Andrew W. Janzen*, Sander Weinreb

Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena


11:20  J1-9  NANOSATS FOR A LOW FREQUENCY SPACE-BASED RADIO INTERFEROMETER

Baptiste Cecconi*1, Stavros Katsanevas2, Denis Puy3, Andre Laurens4, Albert-Jan Boonstra5, Marc Klein Wolt6, Mark Bentum7, Angelica Sicard8, Jean-Louis Pincon9, Marco Agnan2, Martin Giard10, Patrick Loumeau11, Julien Girard12, Cyril Tasse13

1LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, FRANCE
2APC, Universite Paris Diderot, Paris, FRANCE
3LUPM, Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier, FRANCE
4CNES, Toulouse, FRANCE
5ASTRON, Dwingeloo, NETHERLANDS
6Radboud University, Nijmegen, NETHERLANDS
7TU Twente, Twente, NETHERLANDS
8ONERA, Toulouse, FRANCE
9LPC2E, Universite d'Orleans, Orleans, FRANCE
10IRAP, Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, FRANCE
11C2S, TelecomParisTech, Paris, FRANCE
12SAp/IRFU, CEA, Saclay, FRANCE
13GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, FRANCE


11:40  J1-10  DESIGN OF A COMPACT K BAND CRYOGENIC RECEIVER

Jun Shi*1, Sander Weinreb2

1School of Information Science and Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing, CHINA
2Electrical Engineering, California Insititute of Technology, Pasadena