information_for_astronomers:backends

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Available Backends

Available Backends

(page under construction)

For Continuum Observations

BEACON (Backend for advanced continuum observations)
Several receivers are equipped with polarimeters (cf. Receivers for the Effelsberg 100-m Telescope)
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, mostly used for EVN, global and geo VLBI)
RDBE-Terminal (VLBA type, for HSA and VLBA+Eb)

Both terminals are equipped with MK5 recorders. More details can be found here.

For Pulsar Observations

Please contact the pulsar group for information!

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