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Arecibo Observatory Receivers

General Info for All Receivers

Rx Tsys temperature Dewar Temperatures
Temp. of Gregorian Receiver Room Engineering Info (Internal)
Receivers On Schedule Receiver Logs


Receiver Parameters

(Click on receiver name for status, calibration, RFI and Tech. info.)
Name Frequency
Range (GHz) 		Native Polarization Gain
(K/Jy) 		Temp.
(K) 		Beam
Size (') 		Tsys from last system check
(Sat Jul 4 10:28 2009) 		Friend of the RX
(email suffix**)
AVAILABLE for proposals
CH 47 - MHz *** Dual Circular *** *** 110x94 Up P. Freire
(pfreire)
327 - MHz 0.312 - 0.342 Circular with Hybrid,
Native Linear 		11* 113* 15x14 111 P. Freire
(pfreire)
CH 430 - MHz 0.425 - 0.435 Dual Circular 20* 120* 9.5x8.5 87 A. Parsons
(aparsons)
430 - MHz 0.422 - 0.442 Dual Circular 11* 50* 12x10 76 P. Freire
(pfreire)
ALFA 1.225-1.525 Dual Linear 10* 30* 3.8x3.3 ~30 ALFA
Friends
L-wide 1.15 - 1.73 Dual Linear 9-11* 25-40* 3.5x3.1 35 M. Lewis
(blewis)
S-low † 1.8 - 3.1 Dual Linear 8* 40* 2.0x1.8 37 T. Ghosh
(tghosh)
S-narrow 2.33 - 2.43 Dual Circular 10* 25* 2.0x1.8 29 M. Nolan
(nolan)
S-high † 3-4 Dual Linear 7-10* 31-37* 1.5x1.35 Up T. Ghosh
(tghosh)
C 3.85 - 6.00 Dual Linear 4-8.5* 29-40* 1.0x0.9 33 C. Salter
(csalter)
C-high † 5.9-8.1 Dual Linear
(dual beam in future) 		2.5-7.5* 26-29* 0.75x0.65 314 C. Salter
(csalter)
X 7.8 - 10.2 Dual Circular 2.0-5.5* 28-32* 0.57x0.5 42 R. Minchin
(rminchin)
Future  
(WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR A FEW MONTHS FROM JUNE 2009)
800 MHz 0.720-0.820 (subject to DTV transition) Circular with Hybrid,
Native Linear 		10* 70* - Will be available in future R. Minchin (rminchin)
Ji-hyun Kang (jkang)
Archived 
(NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR OBSERVING)
610 - MHz 0.6075 - 0.6115 Dual Linear 11* 102* 8x7 DOWN C. Salter
(csalter)
L-wide_OLD 1.12 - 1.73 Dual Linear 8-11* 30-40* 3.6x3.4 DOWN M. Lewis
(blewis)
L-narrow 1.280 - 1.50 Dual Circular 8-10* 25-30* 3.6x3.4 DOWN M. Lewis
(blewis)

*Check receiver homepage for accurate gain and system temperature values.

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***Not Available at this time

†  Available only in campaign mode.

Tsys from last system check column, las updated: Saturday, 04-Jul-2009 12:00:07 AST by Gomathi (gomathi@naic.edu)

Other contents last updated on June 21, 2007 by E. Momjian

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