J4  New Telescopes, Techniques, and Observations I

Thursday, January 7  15:20-17:40  Room 265

Session Chairs:  David DeBoer, Frank Schinzel

15:20  J4-1  NEW COOLED FEEDS FOR THE ALLEN TELESCOPE ARRAY

Jack Welch*1, Matt Fleming2, Chris Munson3, Jill Tarter3

1Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2Minex Engineering, Antioch, CA
3SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA


15:40  J4-2  ANTENNA SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE NEXT-GENERATION VERY LARGE ARRAY

Robert J. Selina, Jim Jackson*, Wes Grammer

New Mexico Electronics Division, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM


16:00  J4-3  OPTIMIZATION OF SMALL REFLECTOR ANTENNAS FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY

Ahmed M. Soliman*, Sander Weinreb

the Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.


16:20  J4-4  THE STARBURST CORRELATOR: A VERSATILE DIGITAL BACK-END FOR WIDEBAND INTERFEROMETRY

Ryan Monroe*1, Jackie R. Villadsen1, Anthony C. Readhead1, Dale E. Gary2, Stephen J. S. Muchovej1, Loko Kung1, James Lamb1, Gregg W. Hallinan1, Sander Weinreb1

1California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark


16:40  J4-5  SKY NOISE SPECTRAL INDEX AND IONOSPHERIC VARIABILITY FROM 50-190 MHZ WITH EDGES DATA

Thomas J. Mozdzen*1, Judd D. Bowman1, Alan E. E. Rogers2, Raul A. Monsalve1

1School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Westford, Massachusetts


17:20  J4-6  THE EXPANDED LONG WAVELENGTH ARRAY (ELWA)

Frank K. Schinzel*

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico