A high performance solar radio observation system in terrible RFI environments for existing telescope

For the solar radio observations, scientists usually come cross some strong RFIs (Radio Frequency Interferences) producing some invalid observation data. In the past, we had to give up some badly influence bands. Nowadays, we can decrease the RFIs' influences by using advanced circuits, such as...

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Published in:	2014 XXXIth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS) pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors:	Liang Dong, LeSheng He, Min Wang, Guannao Gao
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01-08-2014
Subjects:	Attenuators Educational institutions Field programmable gate arrays Observatories Radio astronomy Receivers Software
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Summary:	For the solar radio observations, scientists usually come cross some strong RFIs (Radio Frequency Interferences) producing some invalid observation data. In the past, we had to give up some badly influence bands. Nowadays, we can decrease the RFIs' influences by using advanced circuits, such as high dynamic range analog receivers, remote gain or attenuation controlling software, high performance ADCs and so on. In this paper, we will introduce a new solar radio observation system in Yunnan observatory's 10 meter solar observation system for 800-975MHz observation band which was given up because of some strong RFIs in the past. This new solar radio observation system can adjust the gain from -25dB to +35dB by remote software through RF(Radio Frequency) and MF (Medium frequency) attenuators. Based on advanced FPGA processor we can achieve high spectral resolution of about 30 KHz/channel and high time resolution of about 34ms. This system can easily improve the capability of old solar radio telescopes for adding abandon bands in.
DOI:	10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6930013