ALMA System Reference

Design and General Requirements

• ALMA Cycle 0 Science Capabilities
• Current Cycle Capabilities

System Components

Antenna

Correlator

• Correlator Specifications and Requirements
• ICD Between AOS TB and Baseline Correlator
• ICD From 64 Antenna Correlator to Computing Correlator Software
• ICD From BE to Correlator
• Production Tunable Filter Bank Card Technical Specification
• Test Manual for TFB
• Programming Manual for TFB

Frontend

Design

• Frontend Subsystem Technical Specification
• Quantum Detection at Millimeter Wavelengths: J.R. Tucker and M.J. Feldman, Rev. Mod. Phys., vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 1055-1113, Oct. 1985, http://rmp.aps.org/pdf/RMP/v57/i4/p1055_1
• The Low Temperature Thermal Resistance of High Purity Copper and Bolted Copper Joints: A. R. Kerr and N. Horner, Electronics Division Technical Note No. 163, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA 22903, August 30, 1991
• Embedding Impedance Approximations in the Analysis of SIS Mixers: A. R. Kerr, S.-K. Pan, and S. Withington, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 590-594, April 1993. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=231650
• Optimum Source Conductance for High Frequency Superconducting Quasiparticle Receivers: Q. Ke and M. J. Feldman, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 600-604, April 1993. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=231652

Optics

Local Oscillator

Bias and Monitoring

Backend

Software

Calibration Documents