Searching for transient pulses with the ETA radio telescope

ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Patterson, C D ^a   Ellingson, S W ^a   Martin, B S ^a   Deshpande, K ^a   Simonetti, J H ^a   Kavic, M ^a   Cutchin, S E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct sampling radio telescope array; FPGA cluster computing; RFI mitigation; Signal dedispersion

Indexed keywords

A/D CONVERSION; ALL-SKY; CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE; CONVENTIONAL COMPUTERS; DATA ACQUISITION CARDS; DATA SETS; DIRECT SAMPLING; FPGA BOARDS; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; INFINIBAND; LOW FREQUENCY; PARALLEL DATA; PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLES; RFI MITIGATION; SERIAL I/O; SIGNAL DEDISPERSION; TIERED ARRANGEMENT; TRANSIENT EVENTS; TRANSIENT PULSE;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GAMMA RAYS; SIGNAL SAMPLING;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 77950591739     PISSN: 19367406     EISSN: 19367414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1462586.1462589     Document Type: Article

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