J2  New Telescopes, Techniques and Technology II

Thursday, January 4  15:20-17:40  Room 265

Session Chairs:  Danny Jacobs, David DeBoer

15:20  J2-1  DEPLOYMENT OF A NOVEL INTERFEROMETER ARCHITECTURE ON THE LWA-SEVILLETA STATION

Nithyanandan Thyagarajan*1, Adam P. Beardsley2, Judd D. Bowman2, Greg B. Taylor3, Jayce Dowell3, Miguel F. Morales4

1National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM
2School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
4Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


15:40  J2-2  ADVANCES IN AN 8 TO 50 GHZ CRYOGENIC LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER FOR THE NEXT GENERATION VERY LARGE ARRAY

Andrew Janzen*, Ezra Long, Lorene Samoska, Jose Velazco

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena


16:00  J2-3  PRELIMINARY TEST RESULTS OF JPL's ULTRAWIDEBAND RECEIVER PACKAGE FOR THE ngVLA

Jose E. Velazco*, Andrew W. Janzen, Daniel J. Hoppe, Lorene A. Samoska, Ezra M. Long, James G. Bowen, Larry R. D'Addario, Melissa A. Soriano, Joseph Lazio

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA


16:20  J2-4  HYPER SPECTRAL FFT IMAGER

Deepthi Gorthi*1, David DeBoer1, Jack Hickish1, Aaron Parsons1, Kathryn Rosie2, Dan Werthimer1

1Dept. of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley
2Square Kilometre Array, Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA


16:40  J2-5  THE BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE: 1.1-1.9 GHZ OBSERVATIONS OF 692 NEARBY STARS

Jesus E. Enriquez*1,2, Andrew Siemion1,2, Griffin Foster1,3, Vishal Gajjar1, Greg Hellbourg1, Jack Hickish1, Howard Isaacson1, Danny C. Price1,4, Steve Croft1, David DeBoer1, Matt Lebofsky1, David MacMahon1, Dan Werthimer1

1UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, NETHERLANDS
3University of Oxford, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
4Swinburne University, Melbourne, AUSTRIA


17:20  J2-6  PROGRESS ON HIRAX, THE HYDROGEN INTENSITY AND REAL-TIME ANALYSIS EXPERIMENT

Emily R. Kuhn*

Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT