用于分子谱线观测的512路数字式自相关频谱仪

本文简要介绍了采用一比特自相关技术实现的５１２路数字式自相关频谱仪的工作原理及系统的硬件和软件构成。该频谱仪主要用于分米及ｃｍ波段分子谱线观测。频谱仪系统时钟可在６２５ＫＨｚ和２０ＭＨｚ之间按２的倍率选择，最大分析带宽为１０ＭＨｚ。最高频率分辨率为０．６１ＫＨｚ，相应于１８ｃｍ波段的速度分辨率为０．１ｋｍ／ｓ。文章最后给出了利用上海天文台２５ｍ射电望远镜观测ＯＨ脉泽源的结果。     

乌鲁木齐25m射电望远镜的 单天线观测研究

自1993年乌鲁木齐天文站25m射电望远镜建成以来,除了不断完善VLBI观测系统外,还选择发展了具有科学价值的单天线天体物理观测课题。其中基于常温接收机的脉冲星脉冲到达时间观测系统已经于1999年5～6月间建成。该系统建立在25m射电天线的18cm波段上,消色散采用了2×128×2．5MHz多通道滤波器和数字化器,并由PC机完成数据采集。同时进行的脉冲星工作还有92cm及其它波段的脉冲轮廓监测,对0329+54的多波段观测得到了它的频谱。在25m天线的1．3cm波段上建立了基于声表面波频谱仪和频率综合器的分子谱线观测系统,对水脉泽的观测已经发现了十几个可能的水脉泽源,观测结果正在认证当中。     

强IRAS远红外源的CO谱线观测

用紫金山天文台青海站的１３７ｍ射电望远镜对２７个强ＩＲＡＳ远红外源（流量Ｆ１００μｍ５００Ｊｙ）进行了ＣＯ（１－０）的谱线观测．观测表明,２７个强ＩＲＡＳ源全部与分子云成协,并与大质量星的形成或早期演化有关．其中１３个源是第一次给出ＣＯ（１－０）的谱线测量结果．本文对这一类源ＣＯ发射的性质进行了简单的讨论．     

分子云ORION—IL的CH3CN Jk=6k—5k谱线的观测

使用名古屋大学４米毫米波射电望远镜于１９９５年１月对对分子云ＯＲＩＯＮ－ＩＬ区域的ＣＨ３ＣＮＪｋ＝６ｋ－５ｋ谱线进行了观测，得到了该区域的５点的谱线。该谱线的观测为青海站１３．７米毫米波射电望远镜提供了又一条可供观测的分子谱线。     

强IRAS远红外源的CO谱线预测

用紫金山天台青海站的１３．７ｍ射电望远镜以２７个强ＩＲＡＳ远红外源（流量Ｆ１００μｍ≤５００Ｊｙ）进行了ＣＯ（１－０）的谱线预测。观测表明,２７个强ＩＩＲＡＳ源全部与分子云成协,产与大质量星的形成或早期演化有关。其中１３个源是第一次给出ＣＯ（１－０）的谱线测量结果,本对这一类源ＣＯ发射的性质进行了简单的讨论。     

一种TeO_2声光偏转器在射电天文上的应用—使用报告

采用上海硅酸盐所研制的离轴型慢横波TeO_2声光偏转器,设计和制造了一台高分辨率声光射电频谱仪。主要用于南天暗星云中一氧化碳分子谱线的观测研究。其频谱分辨率达28kHz,对CO分子的115GHz谱线而言,相当于速度分辨率0.07kms~(-1)。将这台声光频谱仪与澳大利亚的4米直径毫米波射电望远镜结合使用,观测到一些暗星云中具有不同形状的CO分子谱线。谱线轮廓清晰,细节清楚。     

大质量分子云核的CO同位素搜寻

使用紫金山天文台 １３．７ ｍ望远镜上新安装的 ＳＩＳ系统,对 ６４个高色指数 ＩＲＡＳ源和水脉泽源进行了 ＣＯ同位素１３ＣＯ和 Ｃ１８Ｏ Ｊ＝ １－０的搜寻,并对部分源作了成图观测．结果在 ６４个源中全部测到了这一谱线对,而１３ＣＯ的辐射一般较强,说明与稠密分子区成协,其中约６０个源为首次作ＣＯ同位素谱线对巡测．用高斯拟会导出了天线温度、线心速度和谱线全半宽．对辐射强度、话线特征进行了初步分析．     

基于以太网的射电天文制冷接收机的监视系统

制冷接收机是射电望远镜的核心设备,它是否正常工作直接决定望远镜观测的效果。制冷接收机的制冷温度和杜瓦真空度是反映接收机是否正常工作的最重要、最直接的指标之一。因此实现制冷接收机制冷温度和杜瓦真空度的远程实时监控,及时了解接收机是否正常工作对保证射电望远镜正常运行、提高观测效率有重要意义。为乌鲁木齐天文站25m射电望远镜1.3cm制冷接收机研制的一套基于单片机和以太网的数据采集和数据传输的远程监视系统,实现了制冷接收机制冷温度和杜瓦真空度的远程实时监控。该系统采用了美国ATMEL公司生产的8位单片机AVR ATmega16、Microchip Technology公司生产的ENC28J60以及MAXIM公司生产的MAX7219,实现对射电天文制冷接收机制冷温度和杜瓦真空度的数据采集,并利用以太网传输数据实现了远程实时监控接收机的制冷状态。阐述了以太网数据采集及远程监控电路的设计原理及其实现方法。该系统首次在国内大型射电望远镜上实现了对制冷接收机工作状态的远程实时监控,对于保证乌鲁木齐天文站25m射电望远镜1.3cm波段的观测效果有重要作用。     

一种新型射电天文频谱仪——声表面波频谱仪

本文简要介绍一种以傅里叶交换的线性调频Z变换(CZT)算法为工作原理,以声表面波(SAW)器件为支持性技术的新型射电频谱仪.给出它在紫金山天文台青海站13.7m射电天文望远镜13mm接收系统上对22GHz水分子脉泽源试观测的结果,实践表明它具有宽带、高频率分辨率、全固化、机械稳定性好、对工作环境要求不高、可靠性高等优点.在射电天文星际分子谱线观测技术中有一定实用价值.     

大质量分子云核的CO同位素搜寻

使用紫金山天台１３．７ｍ望远镜上新安装的ＳＩＳ系统,对６４个高色指数ＩＲＡＳ源和水脉泽源进行了ＣＯ同位素＾１３ＣＯ和Ｃ＾１８ＯＪ＝１－０的搜寻,并对部分源作了成图观测,结果在６原中全部测到了这一谱线对,而＾１３ＣＯ的辐射一般较强,说明与稠密分子区成协,其中约６０个源为首次作ＣＯ同位素谱线对巡测,用高期拟合导出了天线温度、线心速度和谱线全半宽,对辐射强度、谱线特征进行了初步分析。     

The OH Maser Line Receiving System for the Urumqi 25m Radio Telescope

A maser spectral line system is newly implemented on the Urumqi 25m Radio Telescope. The system consists mainly of a cooling receiver and a 4096 channels digital correlation spectrometer. The frequency resolution of the spectrometer at the maximum signal bandwidth of 80MHz is 19.5kHz. After careful calibrations observation at the 1665 MHz OH maser emission was made towards a number of sources, including W49N and W75N. The observed results demonstrate that the digital correlation spectrometer is suitable for astronomical spectral line observations.     

FIRST RESULTS OF THE SUMER TELESCOPE AND SPECTROMETER ON SOHO – I. Spectra and Spectroradiometry

SUMER – the Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of the Emitted Radiation instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) – observed its first light on January 24, 1996, and subsequently obtained a detailed spectrum with detector B in the wavelength range from 660 to 1490 Å (in first order) inside and above the limb in the north polar coronal hole. Using detector A of the instrument, this range was later extended to 1610 Å. The second-order spectra of detectors A and B cover 330 to 805 Å and are superimposed on the first-order spectra. Many more features and areas of the Sun and their spectra have been observed since, including coronal holes, polar plumes and active regions. The atoms and ions emitting this radiation exist at temperatures below 2 × 10⁶ K and are thus ideally suited to investigate the solar transition region where the temperature increases from chromospheric to coronal values. SUMER can also be operated in a manner such that it makes images or spectroheliograms of different sizes in selected spectral lines. A detailed line profile with spectral resolution elements between 22 and 45 mÅ is produced for each line at each spatial location along the slit. From the line width, intensity and wavelength position we are able to deduce temperature, density, and velocity of the emitting atoms and ions for each emission line and spatial element in the spectroheliogram. Because of the high spectral resolution and low noise of SUMER, we have been able to detect faint lines not previously observed and, in addition, to determine their spectral profiles. SUMER has already recorded over 2000 extreme ultraviolet emission lines and many identifications have been made on the disk and in the corona.     

边带分离型超导SIS接收机本振耦合噪声研究

超导SIS (Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor)接收机因极低的接收机噪声温度成为毫米波和亚毫米波段射电天文观测的首选.本振系统耦合噪声也是接收机噪声的一部分,在多年的天文观测中,发现本振耦合噪声无法完全忽略,对天文观测的灵敏度有一定影响.采用两个不同种类的信号发生器作为本振系统初级信号源,测试了超导SIS接收机的噪声温度,发现信号发生器输出的基底噪声能够耦合到接收机内部,从而增加接收机噪声强度.分析研究了本振系统热噪声和信号发生器基底噪声对接收机噪声的影响.通过在信号发生器输入端加入窄带滤波器滤除其基底噪声,消除了信号发生器基底噪声引入的接收机噪声,降低了接收机的整体噪声,提高了望远镜的灵敏度.     

The Relation Between the Radial Temperature Profile in the Chromosphere and the Solar Spectrum at Centimeter,Millimeter, Submillimeter,and Infrared Wavelengths

Solar observations from millimeter to ultraviolet wavelengths show that there is a temperature minimum between photosphere and chromosphere. Analyses based on semi-empirical models locate this point at about 500 km above the photosphere. The consistency of these models has been tested by means of millimeter to infrared observations. We show that variations of the theoretical radial temperature profile near the temperature minimum impact the brightness temperature at centimeter, submillimeter, and infrared wavelengths, but the millimeter wavelength emission remains unchanged. We found a region between 500 and 1000 km above the photosphere that remains hidden to observations at the frequencies that we studied here.     

Investigation of LO-Coupled Noise for a Sideband Separation Superconducting SIS Receiver

The Superconducting Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) receivers have become the preferred method for (sub)millimeter-wave radio astronomical observations due to the extremely low receiver noise temperature. The coupling noise of the local oscillator (LO) system is also a part of the receiver noise. In many years of astronomical observations, it is found that the LO-coupled noise cannot be completely ignored, which has a certain impact on the sensitivity of astronomical observations. The noise temperature of the superconducting SIS receiver was tested using two different kinds of signal generators as the primary signal source of the LO system. It is found that the base noise output by the signal generator can be coupled into the receiver to increase the receiver noise. By adding a narrow band filter to the output of the signal generator, the base noise of the signal generator can be filtered out, and this part noise of the receiver can be eliminated, the overall noise of the receiver is reduced, and the sensitivity of the telescope is improved.     

1.2--2.2 GHz宽带低噪声放大器研制

为检测微弱的射电信号,要求望远镜接收机噪声性能良好.低噪声放大器(Low Noise Amplifier, LNA)作为接收机前端关键电路,其噪声系数和增益决定了整机的噪声性能.设计了一款1.2–2.2 GHz的低噪声放大器,电路采用两级级联结构,第2级通过引入负反馈,在改善增益平坦度和拓宽带宽的同时减小噪声,级间经过后级输入阻抗优化后仅需一个隔直电容.并引入有损输出匹配网络,实现高增益、低噪声、良好回波损耗和较为平坦的宽带LNA设计.测试结果表明,在1.2–2.2 GHz频段增益30–33 dB,噪声温度平均值为47 K,输出1 d B压缩点大于11.3 dBm.测试性能良好,可用于该频段接收机系统中.     

Experiments on the dish verification antenna china for the SKA

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is expected to become the world’s most powerful radio telescope at meter and centimeter wavelength in the coming decades. The construction of SKA will be divided into two phases. The first phase (SKA1), scheduled for completion in 2023, will construct 10 % of the whole collecting area. The second phase (SKA2) will build the rest 90 % collecting area. The SKA1 consists of several types of arrays including SKA1-low and SKA1-mid. The latter is a dish array consisting of ~200 medium-size antennas. The integrated dish array in SKA2 will expand to 2500 dishes, spreading 3000 kilometers across the southern part of Africa. The demanding specifications and enormous number of the SKA dish raise challenges in the dish development such as mass production with high performance at low cost, quick installation and high reliability. Dish Verification Antenna China (DVA-C) was built as one of three initial prototypes. A novel single-piece panel reflector made of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) was adopted. In this study, an L-band receiver is installed to make DVA-C a complete system for experiments on antenna performance test and preliminary observations. The performance of DVA-C including the system noise temperature, pointing accuracy, antenna pattern, and aperture efficiency has been tested. Preliminary observations such as pulsars and HI are then conducted, which indicates that the DVA-C can not only serve as an educational instrument and key technology test bed, but also be applied for scientific work such as pulsar timing, all-sky HI survey, multi-frequency monitoring of variable sources etc.     

An Interpretation of the Coronal Holes’ Visibility in the Millimeter Wavelength Range

Various observations indicate that coronal holes generally appear as low brightness temperature regions (LTRs) in the centimeter and millimeter wavelength ranges. However, within their borders local enhancements of radiation, that is, high brightness temperature regions (HTRs), often occur. The theory behind the described behavior is not fully understood and therefore we analyze full-disk solar images obtained at a wavelength of 8 mm at Metsähovi Radio Observatory and compare them with data simultaneously taken in other wavelength ranges. The observational finding that the average brightness temperature of coronal holes is not much different from the quiet-Sun level (with localized deviations toward higher and lower intensities on the order of a few percent) is compared with theoretical models of the thermal bremsstrahlung radiation originating in the solar chromosphere, transition region, and corona. Special attention is devoted to the interpretation of the localized enhancements of radiation observed inside coronal holes at millimeter wavelengths. The main conclusion is that the most important contribution to the brightness temperature comes from an increased density in the transition region and low corona (i.e., at the heights where the temperature is below 10⁶ K). This can explain both the LTRs and HTRs associated with coronal holes.