CSRH阵列设计研究

介绍中国频谱日像仪(Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph,CSRH)天线阵排列的研究工作.根据CSRH观测目标,给出了在UV平面优化设计的性能指标.最后通过对螺旋阵参数的优化,根据洁化处理的图像质量决定了中国频谱日像仪天线阵列的设计方案.     

世界各国日像仪主要性能比较

本文是世界各国日像仪的天线阵性能汇集,包括日、俄、法、中、美等专用日像仪及美国、印度、巴西等兼作日像仪的天线阵,列出了几个典型天线阵列排列及接收系统。附录中列出了等口径及不等口径天线阵列的灵敏度及动态范围计算公式,同时列出了视场、角分辨率等公式。便于读者自行分析,计算,比较各天线阵列性能。     

天籁实验抛物柱面天线阵结构设计与力学分析

为了满足大面积天区的射电巡天观测,完成对大尺度结构的精确测量和对暗能量的探测,需要设计可安装大量馈源单元的大规模射电干涉阵列天线。抛物柱面的结构形式能较好满足工作需求,对抛物柱面天线阵进行了结构的选型设计。基于有限元方法及有限元分析软件,建立了用于暗能量射电探测的抛物柱面天线阵结构的有限元模型,计算分析了在重力、冰雪和风力等载荷作用时反射面的变形情况。仿真计算分析结果表明:设计的用于暗能量射电探测的天线结构在各种工况下反射面变形量较小,能满足各项设计技术指标要求,从而验证了天线阵结构的合理性、稳定性和可靠性。     

射电天文30～300 MHz频段稀布阵列关键技术分析与研究

30～300 MHz的甚高频(Very High Frequency, VHF)频段是重要的射电天文波段,该频段观测采用天线阵组阵方式。稀布阵列具有空间分辨率高、副瓣电平低以及造价低等优点,进一步的天线阵综合加权可以对天线阵主瓣波束进行有效赋形,对最大旁瓣副瓣(Maximum Side Lobe)电平和远区栅瓣(Far Side Lobe)电平进行抑制。首先回顾了射电天文甚高频稀布阵列研究发展和现状,以及将会遇到的难点,提出了首先优化最优稀布天线阵元排布,进一步提出融合高性能计算平台+FPGA SOPC的稀布甚高频射电天文阵列信号处理结构体系,在图形处理器(Graphics Processing Unit, GPU)或者云计算平台上完成对天线阵各阵元频点加权参数的计算,然后通过高速总线将计算参数下发到前端的信号处理板中,通过FPGA SOPC完成对加权参数的配发。进一步分析计算了多波束情况下的数据率,可以实现实时的参数配置。本文成果为下一步大规模甚高频天线阵架设提供了技术依据。     

太阳射电研究四十年

本文概述了太阳射电天文学的历史,从早期的失败到1942年Hey对太阳射电波的偶然发现为止.文中讨论了太阳射电研究在米波-十米波、千米-百米波和厘米波所取得的主要进展。同时讨论了与射电爆发共生的耀斑的观测以及用等离子体辐射和回旋同步加速辐射对这些观测所作的解释。从空间对与Ⅲ型爆发有关的等离子振荡和一维电子速度分布的测量,业已证实了用等离子体辐射对观测所作的解释。Ⅲ型爆发的米波-十米波射电日像仪测量和千米-百米波的飞船测量表明,Ⅲ型电子束流是沿着浓密的日冕流和沿着阿基米德螺旋轨道运动的。在厘米波段利用角秒分辨率的大天线阵对活动区和射电爆发所作的高空间分辨率观测,表明了它在观测日冕磁场、了解冕环的物理性质、测量耀斑附近磁场结构,从而在研究太阳耀斑起源方面有着巨大的威力.     

面向新疆奇台110 m射电望远镜宽带双极化Vivaldi馈源设计

射电望远镜一般要在宽频段内进行连续观测, 但传统相控阵天线设计方法难以兼顾宽频带和大角度扫描特性. 紧耦合天线的设计方法为宽带大角度扫描天线提供了新的设计思路, 基于此设计了一款宽带双极化 Vivaldi相控阵馈源. 首先结合Wheeler提出的连续电流片概念及等效电路对紧耦合原理进行理论分析, 然后针对Vivaldi天线分析了阵元间的强耦合能够有效拓展天线的工作带宽. 在此基础上设计了一款宽带Vivaldi相控阵馈源. 馈源阵列由8×9 Vivaldi天线阵元组成, 该阵列的工作带宽为2-8GHz, 并且能够在E面和H面均实现±$45^\circ$的扫描特性. 最后对该馈源阵列进行了样机加工和测试, 测试结果与仿真结果具有较好的一致性.     

一种55～65 MHz频段射电天文天线阵接收机的设计

30~300 MHz的低频段陆基天线阵是重要的射电观测设备,在该频段进行射电观测面临无线电环境复杂、天空背景温度高等特点。介绍了一种基于微波芯片设计的新型低频段模拟接收机。接收机由初级带通滤波器(30~70 MHz)、初级放大器、次级带通滤波器(55~65 MHz)、180°移相器、两个次级放大器组成。在测试云南天文台短波段无线电环境的基础上,接收机实现了对55~65 MHz可观测频段的选通和放大,整机噪声约为320 K,增益63 d B左右。同时作为中国射电天文低频阵前期研究的一部分,由于采用单片微波集成电路(Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit,MMIC)芯片,接收机具有体积小、成本低、易于量产等特点。     

基于以太网的CSRH天线阵控制系统研究方案

中国频谱日像仪(Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph,CSRH)一期工程包括40面天线(400 MHz ～2 GHz)组成的天线阵,二期工程包括60面天线(2～15 GHz).天线统一控制包括天线指向调整、目标源跟踪、射电定标等.无论何种情况,所有的天线均需统一协调工作.对CSRH天线阵列整体控制进行了研究,提出了一种基于以太网的CSRH天线阵控制方案,并对可能遇到的关键问题进行分析.     

密云米波综合孔径射电望远镜

密云米波综合孔径射电望远镜工作在232MHz,由28面直径9米的东-西天线阵组成,天线阵全长1164米,u-v平面覆盖完整,适于进行北赤纬天区射电源普查及特殊源搜索。2×12小时观测得“热噪音限制”灵敏度0.05Jy,综合方向束3′.8×3′.8cscδ,视场8°×8°,可以在两年以内完成δ≥+30°天区的普查,并开展选区监测。 本文将介绍这项设备的设计特点和完成情况,并对基本结构作简要说明。     

太阳射电30~65MHz波段模拟接收机的研制

10 m波段的太阳射电观测,对监测日冕物质抛射(Coronal Mass Ejection,CME)有着重要的意义。介绍了一种安装在太阳射电天线阵的模拟接收机,工作频率范围是30~65 MHz,用于监测太阳10 m波的爆发活动。接收机采用直接采样的结构,由巴伦、滤波器和放大器组成。研制完成的接收机,增益达到60 d B,动态范围约33 d B,输入三阶互调点IIP3=-24 d Bm,噪声系数N=4.3 d B,满足观测要求。最后,计算了太阳射电天线阵的最小可测流量密度。     

关于中国厘米-分米波频谱日像仪(CSRH)选址与无线电环境监测

介绍了CSRH项目的选址工作以及在选址过程中进行的无线电环境监测的工作情况，文中列出了待选台址的基本情况对比表，对其做了初步的分析和结论，及无线电监测的曲线图等。     

关于太阳厘米-分米波段频谱日像仪研究进展

摘要：在无线电波段进行射电观测是研究太阳的一个十分重要的手段，不同波段的无线电波反映出不同的特性和状态，其辐射频率与环境参数密切相关。当探测出某一频率上的无线电辐射后，即可诊断源区的电子密度或磁场。因此，建设厘米-分米波段频谱日像仪将首次在该波段上实现同时以高空间、高时间和高频率分辨率观测太阳活动的动力学性质，探测日冕大气。对于太阳物理研究具有重要作用。本文介绍该项目的科学意义、技术方案及预研进展情况。     

The Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph—CSRH

A new Chinese radioheliograph project (CSRH) at multiple frequencies in the decimetric to centimeter wave range with ～100 antennas of 2–5 m is proposed. A prototype study of 2-element interferometer was tested for overall design. The site survey for the CSRH array is carried out and a radio quiet region in Inner Mongolia of China appears promising. As a first step, the CSRH in decimetric wave range with 40 antennas of 4.5 m is proposed. The progress about the project is introduced.     

Proposed national large solar telescope

Sun’s atmosphere is an ideal place to study and test many magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) processes controlling turbulent plasma. We wish to resolve some of the finest solar features (which remain unresolved presently) and study their dynamics. Indian Institute of Astrophysics has proposed to design, fabricate and install a 2-meter class solar telescope at a suitable site in India to resolve features on the Sun of the size of about 0.1 arcsec. The focal plane instruments will include a high resolution polarimeteric package to measure polarization with an accuracy of 0.01 per cent; a high spectral resolution spectrograph to obtain spectra in 5 widely separated absorption lines simultaneously and high spatial resolution narrow band imagers in various lines. The Himalayan region appears to be a good choice keeping in view the prevailing dry and clear weather conditions. We have started detailed analysis of the weather conditions in the area and at some other locations in India. The site characterization will be done using the Sun-photometer, S-DIMM and SHABAR techniques to determine the seeing conditions.     

中国频谱射电日像仪FITS-IDI文件格式研究

我国新一代中国频谱射电日像仪（Chinese Spectral Radio Heliograph,CSRH）原始观测数据采用自定义格式,在进行后续处理与共享使用时必须转换相应的格式.在分析FITS-IDI（FITS Interferometry Data Interchange）格式的基础上,结合CSRH的实际观测模式与数据产出方式,定义与设计了符合项目情况的FITS-IDI格式及字段,并对FITS-IDI文件中若干字段的值如何获取、计算进行了深入讨论.根据定义生成的FITS-IDI文件已成功导入CASA软件,并可以进行后续处理.经过对CASA测量集文件的核实,证明了数据生成的正确性.本研究有效地推进了CSRH的建设工作,也对其他射电干涉阵数据存储有一定的参考价值.     

Advanced Technology Solar Telescope

High-resolution studies of the Sun’s magnetic fields are needed for a better understanding of the fundamental processes responsible for solar variability. The generation of magnetic fields through dynamo processes, the amplification of fields through the interaction with plasma flows, and the destruction of fields are poorly understood. There is incomplete insight into physical mechanisms responsible for chromospheric and coronal structure and heating, causes of variations in the radiative output of the Sun, and mechanisms that trigger flares and coronal mass ejections. Progress in answering these critical questions requires study of the interaction of the magnetic field and convection with a resolution sufficient to observe scale fundamental to these processes. The planned 4 m aperture ATST will be a unique scientific tool, with excellent angular resolution, a large wavelength range, and low scattered light. With its integrated adaptive optics, the ATST will achieve a spatial resolution nearly 10 times better than any existing solar telescope. The ATST design and development phase began in 2001 and it is now ready to begin construction in 2009.     

ALMA as the ideal probe of the solar chromosphere

The very nature of the solar chromosphere, its structuring and dynamics, remains far from being properly understood, in spite of intensive research. Here we point out the potential of chromospheric observations at millimeter wavelengths to resolve this long-standing problem. Computations carried out with a sophisticated dynamic model of the solar chromosphere due to Carlsson and Stein demonstrate that millimeter emission is extremely sensitive to dynamic processes in the chromosphere and the appropriate wavelengths to look for dynamic signatures are in the range 0.8–5.0 mm. The model also suggests that high resolution observations at mm wavelengths, as will be provided by ALMA, will have the unique property of reacting to both the hot and the cool gas, and thus will have the potential of distinguishing between rival models of the solar atmosphere. Thus, initial results obtained from the observations of the quiet Sun at 3.5 mm with the BIMA array (resolution of 12″) reveal significant oscillations with amplitudes of 50–150 K and frequencies of 1.5–8 mHz with a tendency toward short-period oscillations in internetwork and longer periods in network regions. However higher spatial resolution, such as that provided by ALMA, is required for a clean separation between the features within the solar atmosphere and for an adequate comparison with the output of the comprehensive dynamic simulations.     

Very High-Resolution Solar X-Ray Imaging Using Diffractive Optics

This paper describes the development of X-ray diffractive optics for imaging solar flares with better than 0.1 arcsec angular resolution. X-ray images with this resolution of the ???10?MK plasma in solar active regions and solar flares would allow the cross-sectional area of magnetic loops to be resolved and the coronal flare energy release region itself to be probed. The objective of this work is to obtain X-ray images in the iron-line complex at 6.7?keV observed during solar flares with an angular resolution as fine as 0.1 arcsec ?C over an order of magnitude finer than is now possible. This line emission is from highly ionized iron atoms, primarily Fe xxv, in the hottest flare plasma at temperatures in excess of ???10 MK. It provides information on the flare morphology, the iron abundance, and the distribution of the hot plasma. Studying how this plasma is heated to such high temperatures in such short times during solar flares is of critical importance in understanding these powerful transient events, one of the major objectives of solar physics. We describe the design, fabrication, and testing of phase zone plate X-ray lenses with focal lengths of ???100 m at these energies that would be capable of achieving these objectives. We show how such lenses could be included on a two-spacecraft formation-flying mission with the lenses on the spacecraft closest to the Sun and an X-ray imaging array on the second spacecraft in the focal plane ???100 m away. High-resolution X-ray images could be obtained when the two spacecraft are aligned with the region of interest on the Sun. Requirements and constraints for the control of the two spacecraft are discussed together with the overall feasibility of such a formation-flying mission.     

An EUV imaging spectrograph for high-resolution observations of the solar corona

An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging spectrograph for the wavelength range from 235 to 450 Å has been developed and used for high resolution observations of the Sun. The instrument incorporates a glancing incidence Wolter Type II Telescope and a near-normal incidence toroidal grating spectrograph to achieve near-stigmatic performance over this spectral range. The design of the spectrograph entrance aperture enables both stigmatic spectra with spectral resolution adequate to observe emission line profiles and spectroheliograms of restricted portions of the Sun to be obtained concurrently. In this paper we describe the design and performance of the instrument and provide an overview of results obtained during a sounding rocket flight on May 5, 1989.     

A model of the heliospheric magnetic field configuration

A three-dimensional model of the magnetic field configuration in the heliosphere is constructed by assuming that the interplanetary magnetic field consists of four components, (i) the solar dipole, (ii) a large number of small spherical dipoles located along an equatorial circle just inside the Sun (representing the magnetic field line arcade), (iii) the field of the poloidal current system generated by the solar unipolar induction and (iv) the field of an extensive current disc around the Sun lying in the ecliptic plane. The magnetic field intensity at a distance of 1 A.U. (about 20 R⊙ above the ecliptic plane) is normalized to fit the observed spiral configuration.