Lecturer: Dr. Carlos Durán
Day 1 (10:00 – 11:15 + 11:30 – 12:45)
1. Drivers for a telescope (and instrumentation)
- Scientific Interest
- Technology
- Interface and Specification.
- Project Management
2. Constraints, limitations and barriers
- Technology & technics
- Site (Atmosphere)
- Money
- Logistics & Operation
- Competitors / use.
3. Telescopes and configurations
- Single Dish / Arrays
- Ground-base / Air- Balloon borned / Space
4. Testing, Commissioning and Acceptance.
- Key concepts
5. Operation: The non-visible backstage.
- Data Handling, Calibration and Archiving
- Surface accuracy and efficiencies
- Pointing and Atmospheric models
- Power
- Cryogenics
Day 2 (10:00 – 11:15 + 11:30 – 12:45)
1. Receiver Technology used in (Radio) Astronomy
- Front-end
- Heterodynes (single pixel and arrays)
- Calorimeters / Bolometers
- Backends
- Spectrometers: AOS / FFTs
- Correlators (Auto and Cross)
- ADC and Total power detectors.
2. The need of low temperature: Cryostat and Cryogenics
3. (Quasi) Optics, Telescope Coupling and interfacing.
4. The design of an instrument.
Modeling and simulations
Selection of Components
Optics Design (Mirrors, filters, windows, etc)
Mechanical design
Electronics and Electrical Interfacing
Software
5. Tune up, characterization and commissioning
Lab Tests and Operation points
Merit figures: Allan Variance, T_Rec, Thermo/mech. Stabilities. Uncertainties
Commissioning.
DAY 3: 10h
Receiver lab visit