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Title: | The SKA Dish SPF and LMC Interaction Design: Interfaces, Simulation, Testing and Integration | Authors: | MARASSI, Alessandro Kotze, Jan Steyn, T.J. van Niekerk, C RIGGI, Simone SCHILLIRO', FRANCESCO Smit, George |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Volume: | Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems | Abstract: | The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is responsible for developing the SKA Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope ever built: eventually two arrays of radio antennas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be installed in the South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's Murchison Shire respectively, each covering a different range of radio frequencies. In particular, the SKA1-Mid array will comprise of 133 15m diameter dish antennas observing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range, each locally managed by a Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) system and remotely orchestrated by the SKA Telescope Manager (TM) system. All control system functionality run on the Tango Controls platform. The Dish Single Pixel Feed (SPF) work element will design the combination of feed elements, orthomode transducers (OMTs), and low noise amplifiers (LNAs) that receive the astronomical radio signals. Some SPFs have cryogenically cooled chambers to obtain the sensitivity requirements. This paper gives a status update of the SKA Dish SPF and LMC interaction design, focusing on SPF, LMC simulators and engineering/operational user interfaces, prototypes being developed and technological choices. | Conference Name: | 16th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS 2017) | Conference Place: | Barcelona, Spain | Conference Date: | October 8-13, 2017 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/27433 | URL: | http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/icalepcs2017/doi/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-THPHA142.html http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/icalepcs2017/ |
ISBN: | 978-3-95450-193-9 | DOI: | 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-THPHA142 | Fulltext: | open |
Appears in Collections: | 3.01 Contributi in Atti di convegno |
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