Ku波段宽带低噪声放大器的关键技术研究

低噪声放大器LNA(Low Noise Amplifier)是射电天文接收机的重要组成部分,其等效噪声温度决定了接收机的灵敏度。该文介绍了一种宽带Ku波段低噪声放大器的设计原理和方法,并给出了仿真结果。该放大器采用NEC公司的NE3210S01高电子迁移率场效应晶体管HEMT(High E-lectron Mobility field-effect Transistor)三级级联结构。在11～13GHz范围内的增益大于29.7dB,等效噪声温度小于55K,输入输出匹配好于-25dB。     

L波段致冷低噪声放大器

介绍了应用于射电天文望远镜L波段接收机系统的致冷低噪声放大器的设计。该放大器采用了Agilent公司ATF - 35 14 3假晶高电子迁移率场效应管 (pHEMT) ,为两级级联结构 ,频率范围16 0 0～ 174 0MHz。在物理温度小于 15K(Kelvin)的环境中 ,放大器工作正常 ,两级直流偏置点都在2V 7mA ,增益 2 8.7～ 2 8.9dB ,噪声 3.2～ 3.8K ,输入匹配好于 - 2 2dB ,输出匹配好于 - 16dB ,无条件稳定。     

L波段致冷低噪声放大器

介绍了应用于射电天文望远镜L波段接收机系统的致冷低噪声放大器的设计。该放大器采用了Agilent公司ATF-35143假晶高电子迁移率场效应管(pHEMT)．为两级级联结构，频率范围1600～1740MHz。在物理温度小于15K(Kelvin)的环境中，放大器工作正常，两级直流偏置点都在2V7mA，增益28．7—28．9dB，噪声3．2—3．8K，输入匹配好于-22dB，输出匹配好于-16dB，无条件稳定。     

C波段卫星信号接收机低噪声放大器的设计

介绍了一个应用于C波段卫星信号接收机的低噪声放大器(LNA)的设计过程。为达到低噪声和高增益的目标,该低噪声放大器是利用低噪声的PHEMT晶体管ATF36077(用在第一级)和噪声性能良好的微波单片放大器MGA86576(用在第二级)级联设计完成的。测试结果表明,该低噪声放大器的性能达到了预定指标:在3.8 GH至4.2 GHz工作带宽内噪声系数NF≤0.7 dB,增益≥36 dB,1 dB带宽约350 MHz。     

4～10 GHz宽带单片集成低噪声放大器设计

在单片微波集成电路领域,放大器的设计往往不能兼顾噪声、增益和带宽,通常为达到最佳噪声和增益会限制带宽,或者为增大带宽而牺牲噪声和增益。本文采用稳懋公司0.15μmpHEMT工艺,综合各种因素,设计了一款宽带低噪声放大器电路,其频率范围4～10 GHz,增益约25 dB,噪声温度低于100 K,输入输出回波损耗大于10 dB。     

2～18 GHz超宽带低噪声放大器芯片研制

低噪声放大器在射电天文望远镜接收机中是一个重要的前端组件,其性能对接收机的灵敏度和噪声有至关重要的影响。采用OMMIC公司70 nm GaAs mHEMT工艺研究和设计了一款工作频率为2~18 GHz的超宽带单片微波集成低噪声放大器芯片,芯片面积为2 mm×1 mm。放大器电路采用三级级联放大、双电源供电拓扑结构,常温在片测试结果显示,全频带增益大于28 dB,噪声温度平均值为93 K,直流功耗150 mW,无条件稳定。该放大器芯片覆盖了射电天文S,C,X,Ku 4个传统观测波段,适用于厘米波段超宽带接收前端和毫米波段超宽带中频放大模块。     

基于100 nm砷化镓pHEMT工艺的C波段宽带低噪声放大器芯片

作为射电天文接收机系统的关键器件, 低噪声放大器的噪声和增益性能对接收机系统的灵敏度有重要影响. 采用100nm砷化镓赝配高电子迁移率晶体管(pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor, pHEMT)\lk工艺, 研制了一款可覆盖C波段(4--8GHz)的低噪声放大器(Low Noise Amplifier, LNA). 所设计的LNA采用3级共源级联放大拓扑结构, 栅极、漏极双电源供电. 常温下测试表明, 该LNA在4--8GHz频段内平均噪声温度为\lk60K, 在5GHz处获得最低噪声温度50K, 通带内增益($31\pm1.5$)dB, 输入输出回波损耗均优于10dB, 芯片面积为$2.1\times1.1$mm², 可以应用于C波段射电天文接收机以及卫星通信系统等.     

射电天文4—40GHz超宽带低噪声放大器设计

超宽带接收机面临众多技术挑战,而关键技术难点之一是超宽带低噪声放大器.采用以砷化镓材料为基底的70 nm栅长改性高电子迁移率晶体管和双电源偏置4级放大电路结构,设计了一款4–40 GHz超宽带低噪声单片微波集成放大器,完整覆盖C、X、Ku、K、Ka共5个波段.设计仿真结果表明,该放大器增益为(40±2.5) dB,常温下噪声温度平均95 K, 4–12.5 GHz噪声温度全频带低于83 K,直流功耗130.5 mW.整个频带内输入反射系数典型值-10 d B,输出反射系数典型值-15 d B,全频带范围内稳定,无自激振荡现象.该器件可做为前置放大器,应用于超宽带接收机和大规模多波束接收机中,可有效提高射电望远镜观测效率.     

基于砷化镓晶体管的1.35～2.0GHz低噪声放大器

低噪声放大器(Low Noise Amplifier, LNA)是接收机系统的关键器件,其性能决定了接收机系统的噪声温度和对微弱射电信号的放大能力。采用Avago公司砷化镓(GaAs)工艺的pHEMT ATF-54134研制了一款可工作在1.35～2.0 GHz频率范围内的低噪声放大器。该放大器采用两级拓扑结构,单电源自偏置供电,典型增益28 dB,典型噪声温度35 K,输入回波损耗优于-10 dB,输出回波损耗优于-15 dB,输入1 dB压缩点为-13 dBm。该放大器除了可用于对中性氢、脉冲星和羟基进行观测的射电望远镜接收机以外,还可用于电波环境监测系统。     

13mm低温制冷谱线接收系统和星际水分子观测研究

为了开拓短厘米波单天线星际分子的观测和研究,在乌鲁木齐天文站２５ｍ射电望远镜１３ｍｍ低温制冷接收机的基础上,配置了声表面波频谱仪和谱线数据采集系统,组成了１３ｍｍ低温致冷谱线接收机．接收机前端是一个工作在低温２０Ｋ的低噪声放大器,本振是２２ＧＨｚ的锁相源．接收机的平均噪声温度为５０Ｋ．后端是一个宽带的（４０ＭＨｚ）高分辨率（４０ｋＨｚ）的声表波频谱仪．利用这套系统观测了一批已知的水脉泽源,观测系统正常,结果合理．观测结果表明,乌鲁木齐天文站良好的站址和２５ｍ射电望远镜给厘米波段星际分子谱线观测提供了一个很好的条件．     

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Alkali and halogen chemistry in volcanic gases on Io

We use chemical equilibrium calculations to model the speciation of alkalis and halogens in volcanic gases emitted on Io. The calculations cover wide temperature (500-2000 K) and pressure (10⁻⁶ to 10⁺¹ bars) ranges, which overlap the nominal conditions at Pele (T=1760 K, P=0.01 bars). About 230 compounds of 11 elements (O, S, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, F, Cl, Br, I) are considered. The elemental abundances for O, S, Na, K, and Cl are based upon observations. CI chondritic elemental abundances relative to sulfur are used for the other alkalis and halogens (as yet unobserved on Io). We predict the major alkali species in Pele-like volcanic gases and the percentage distribution of each alkali are LiCl (73%), LiF (27%); NaCl (81%), Na (16%), NaF (3%); KCl (91%), K (5%), KF (4%); RbCl (93%), Rb (4%), RbF (3%); CsCl (92%), CsF (6%), Cs (2%). Likewise the major halogen species and the percentage distribution of each halogen are NaF (88%), KF (10%), LiF (2%); NaCl (89%), KCl (11%); NaBr (89%), KBr (10%), Br (1%); NaI (61%), I (30%), KI (9%). We predict the major halogen condensates and their condensation temperatures at P=0.01 bar are NaF (1115 K), LiF (970 K); NaCl (1050 K), KCl (950 K); KBr (750 K), RbBr (730 K), CsBr (645 K); and solid I₂ (200 K). We also model disequilibrium chemistry of the alkalis and halogens in the volcanic plume. Based on this work and our prior modeling for Na, K, and Cl in a volcanic plume, we predict the major loss processes for the alkali halide gases are photolysis and/or condensation onto grains. Their estimated photochemical lifetimes range from a few minutes for alkali iodides to a few hours for alkali fluorides. Condensation is apparently the only loss process for elemental iodine. On the basis of elemental abundances and photochemical lifetimes, we recommend searching for gaseous KCl, NaF, LiF, LiCl, RbF, RbCl, CsF, and CsCl around volcanic vents during eruptions. Based on abundance considerations and observations of brown dwarfs we also recommend a search of Io's extended atmosphere and the Io plasma torus for neutral and ionized Li, Cs, Rb, and F.     

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The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring deserts

Modern-day synoptic-scale eastern Mediterranean climatology provides a useful context to synthesize the diverse late Pleistocene (60–12 ka) paleohydrologic and paleoenvironmental indicators of past climatic conditions in the Levant and the deserts to its south and east. We first critically evaluate, extract, and summarize paleoenvironmental and paleohydrologic records. Then, we propose a framework of eastern Mediterranean atmospheric circulation features interacting with the morphology and location of the southeast Mediterranean coast. Together they strongly control the spatial distribution of rainfall and wind pattern. This cyclone–physiography interaction enforces the observed rainfall patterns by hampering rainfall generation south and southeast of the latitude of the north Sinai coast, currently at 31°15′.The proposed framework explains the much-increased rains in Lebanon and northern Israel and Jordan as deduced from pollen, rise and maintenance of Lake Lisan, and speleothem formation in areas currently arid and semiarid. The proposed framework also accounts for the southward and eastward transition into semiarid, arid, and hyperarid deserts as expressed in thick loess accumulation at the deserts' margins, dune migration from west to east in the Sinai and the western Negev, and the formation of hyperarid (< 80 mm yr^− 1) gypsic–salic soils in the southern Negev and Sinai. Our climatic synthesis explains the hyperarid condition in the southern Negev, located only 200–250 km south of the much-increased rains in the north, probably reflecting a steeper rainfall gradient than the present-day gradient from the wetter Levant into its bordering southern and eastern deserts.At present, the rainiest winter seasons in Lebanon and northern and central Israel are associated with more frequent (+ 20%), deeper Cyprus Lows traversing the eastern Mediterranean at approximately the latitude of southern Turkey. Even these wettest years in northern Israel do not yield above average annual rainfall amounts in the hyperarid southern Negev. This region is mainly influenced by the Active Red Sea Troughs that produce only localized rains. The eastern Mediterranean Cyprus Lows also produce more dust storms and transport higher amounts of suspended dust to the loess area than any other atmospheric pattern. Concurrent rainfall and dust are essential to the late Pleistocene formation of the elongated thick loess zone along the desert northern margin. Even with existing dust storms, the lack of rain and very sparse vegetation account for the absence of late Pleistocene loess sequences from the southern Negev and the formation of hyperarid soils.When the north Sinai coast shifted 30–70 km northwest due to last glacial global sea level lowering, the newly exposed coastal areas supplied the sand and dust to these active eastern Mediterranean cyclones. This enforced the latitude of the northern boundary of the loess zone to be directly due east of the LGM shoreline. This shift of coast to the northwest inhibited rainfall in the southern Levant deserts and maintained their hyperaridity. Concurrently, frequent deep eastern Mediterranean Cyprus Lows were funneled along the northern Mediterranean increasing (probably doubling) the rains in central and northern Israel, Lebanon, southwestern Syria and northern Jordan. These storms and rains formed lakes, forests, and speleothems only a short distance north of the deserts in the southern Levant.     

Study on the Stressed Mirror Polishing with a Continuous Polishing Machine for Large Aperture Off-axis Aspheric Mirrors

A special stressed annular polishing technique is proposed to mill the off-axis aspheric sub-mirrors of a large segmented mirror with an annular polishing machine. Based on the basic principle of stressed annular polishing technique, a set of special stressing mechanisms are designed to convert milling the aspheric surfaces of sub-mirrors with different off-axis distances into milling the spherical surfaces with identical radii of curvature, so that they can be pol- ished simultaneously on a continuous polishing machine. It took about contin- uous 40 hours to polish a scaled-down mirror of the planning Chinese Future Giant Telescope (CFGT) using this technique. This mirror has the 330 mm di- ameter, 3.6 m off-axis distance, and the 21.6 m radius of curvature, and its max- imum asphericity is 16 micron. The experiment shows that this method has a high effciency, suits batch manufacturing, especially the batch manufacturing of aspheric sub-mirrors of the segmented primary mirror of an extremely large aperture telescope.     

Active hot star shells

Interferometry in the visible provides milliarcsecond spatial resolution and thus has been used for studying the circumstellar environment of active hot stars. In this paper I will illustrate how the visibility modulus and phase can be used to better constrain the physics of Be disks through results from the VLA, the MkII and the GI2T interferometers. I will insist on the importance and the potential of coupling high angular resolution with high spectral resolution to the study of Be shells. Finally I will present a possible study of the circumstellar disk of Be stars using the VLTI. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Fitting X-ray Afterglow Light curves of Gamma-ray Bursts by Using the Magnetar Energy Injection Model

The central compact object for some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be a strongly magnetized millisecond pulsar. It can inject energy to the outer shock of the GRB by through the magnetic dipole radiation, and therefore causes the shallow decay of the early afterglow. Recently, from a large number of GRB X-ray afterglows observed by Swift/XRT(X-ray telescope), it is revealed that many of them exhibit the shallow decay about 10²∼10⁴ s after the burst prompt emission. We have fitted the X-ray afterglow light curves of 11 GRBs by using the energy injection model of a magnetar with the rotation period in the millisecond order of magnitude. The obtained result shows the validity and universality of the magnetar energy injection model in explaining the shallow decay of afterglows, and simultaneously provides some constraints on the magnetic field strength and rotation period of the central magnetar.     

我国新一代VLBI数字基带转换器研制进展

数字化是目前设备研制发展的趋势,介绍了中国科学院上海天文台利用超大规模集成电路结合软件无线电技术,自主研发的我国新一代VLBI数字基带转换器(Chinese Data Acquisition System,简称CDAS).文中描述了设备的工作原理及其组成,并以VLBI观测实验数据证明其可行性.与原有的模拟设备(Anal...