ALMA System Reference
Last Update:
JeffMangum
- 21 May 2013
Design and General Requirements
System Components
Antenna
Correlator
Frontend
Design
Optics
Local Oscillator
Bias and Monitoring
Backend
Software
Calibration Documents
Design and General Requirements
ALMA Basics
ALMA Science Capabilities
ALMA Cycle 0 Science Capabilities
Current Cycle Capabilities
Science Requirements
ALMA-Wide Specifications and ICDs Summary
ALMA System Technical Requirements
System Components
ALMA Block Diagram
System Design Description
Antenna
Technical Specification for the Design, Manufacturing, Transport, and Integration on Site of the 64 ALMA Antennas
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
Backend Electronics Design Description
Software
Software Science Requirements and Use Cases
Coordinate Systems Specification
ALMA Export Data Format
Calibration Documents
The following figure represents the ALMA calibration documentation "roadmap":
Calibration System Specifications and Requirements (Current Version 2005/07/14)
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You can also access this document within EDM as
CRE number 78
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Calibration Plan
Antenna Configurations Specifications and Requirements
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