Performance of the pre-production band 3 (84-116 GHz) receivers for ALMA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Claude, S ^a   Jiang, F ^a   Niranjanan, P ^a   Dindo, P ^a   Erickson, D ^a   Yeung, K ^a   Derdall, D ^a   Duncan, D ^a   Garcia, D ^a   Leckie, B ^a   Pfleger, M ^a   Rodrigues, G ^a   Szeto, K ^a   Welle, P ^a   Wood, I ^a   Caputa, K ^a   Lichtenberger, A ^b   Pan, S K ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ALMA Band 3; SIS receiver

Indexed keywords

ALMA BAND 3; ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETER ARRAY; GHZ FREQUENCIES; PRE-PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION UNITS; SIS RECEIVER; SUB-MILLIMETER; TWO PHASES;

ASTROPHYSICS; FREQUENCY BANDS; INSTRUMENTS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 52249089995     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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