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Available Backends

(page under construction)

For Continuum Observations

  • BEACON (Backend for advanced continuum observations)
  • Several receivers are equipped with polarimeters (cf. ..)
  • 8-Bank polarimeter for the 18/21cm- and for the 11cm-receiver

For Spectroscopy

  • XFFT spectrometer (2x 32768 channels, 2000, 500, 100 MHz Bandwidth)
  • Array FFT spectrometer (16x16384 channels)

A description of the FFT spectrometer and how they work can be found in the paper of Klein et al.

For VLBI

  • dBBC-Terminal (FS9 type)
  • RDBE-Terminal (VLBA type)

Both terminals are equipped with MK5 recorders.

For Pulsar Observations

Please contact the pulsar group for information!

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