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Receivers for the Effelsberg 100-m Telescope

The receiver list below is separated by prime and secondary focus receivers ordered by wavelengths. With the installation of the new subreflector receiver changes in the prime focus became more flexible. Receiver changes from prime focus to secondary focus and vice versa are now possible within 30 minutes. In addition also multi frequency receiver boxes are installed at the prime focus, yielding again a higher flexibility. At the moment, two multi-receiver boxes are available. The first contains the 18/21 cm (single pixel), the 1.9 cm and the 1.0 cm receivers; the second one includes the 30 cm, 5 cm, 2.2 cm and 0.3 cm systems. Changes within a multi-box are done by rotating the box and shifting the subreflector, which takes about a minute.

In the secondary focus of the telescope the receivers are permanently mounted on their positions described in the receiver description. In secondary focus observations, these receivers can be used "quasi-parallel", ie one can easily change by software from one receiver to another in a timescale of ~ 30 sec without manual interventions.


Look here for a table of noise values for continuum observations.


Receiver List

Prime focus receivers Picture
RX Name Wavelength [cm] Frequency range (center) [GHz] Nr. of Horns Polarization Comment Calibration information Technical information
P740mm 74 0.400-0.405 (0.402) 1 RCP contact staff, if interested NA tech. data
P500mm 100-33 0.3-0.9 (0.6) 1 LCP/RCP contact staff, if interested more details tech. data
P300mm (4-Box) 37-23 0.8-1.3 (1.05) 1 LCP/RCP multi-box II, currently not available more details tech. data
P217mm 7-Beam 21 1.27-1.45 (1.36) 7 1xLCP/RCP, 6xX/Y more details tech. data
P200mm (4-Box) 18/21 1.29-1.43 (1.36) / 1.57-1.72 (1.65) 1 LCP/RCP multi-box I, polarimeter more details tech. data
P170mm UBB 23-5 1.3-6.0 (2.1) 1 2x linear under commissioning more details please contact the receiver division
P26mm (4-Box) 2.6 11.7 1 1xlinear holography RX, multi-box I more details tech. data
P10mm (4-Box) 1.0 27.0-38.5 (32.0) 1 1xlinear multi-box I more details tech. data
P3mm (4-Box) 0.3 84.0-95.5 (89.0) 2 LCP/RCP multi-box I more details tech. data
Secondary focus receivers Picture
RX Name Wavelength [cm] Frequency (center) [GHz] Nr. of Horns Polarization Comment Calibration information Technical information
S130mm 13 2.2-2.3 (2.25) 1 RCP only for geo-VLBI more details tech. data
S110mm 11 2.4-2.7 (2.55) 1 LCP/RCP polarimeter more details tech. data
S60mm Double Beam 6 4.6-5.1 (4.85) 2 LCP/RCP polarimeter more details tech. data
S45mm 4.5 4.0-9.3 (6.65) 1 2xlinear more details tech. data
S36mm 3.6 7.9-9.0 (8.35) 1 LCP/RCP polarimeter more details tech. data
S28mm Double Beam 2.8 10.3-10.6 (10.45) 2 LCP/RCP polarimeter more details tech. data
S20mm Double Beam RX 2 12.0-18.0 (15.0) 2 LCP/RCP more details tech. data
S14mm Double Beam RX 1.3 18.0-26.0 (22.0) 2 LCP/RCP more details tech. data
S7mm Double Beam RX 0.7 33.5-50.0 (41.5) 2 LCP/RCP more details tech. data
Receivers not operational any more
RX Name Wavelength [cm] Frequency range (center) [GHz] Nr. of Horns Polarization Comment Calibration information Technical information
P170mm UBB (old) 25-10 1.2-3.0 (2.1) 1 2x linear was 0.6-3.0 more details tech. data
P90mm 9.0 2.9-3.1 (3.0) / 3.3-3.6 (3.45) 1 1xlinear more details tech. data
P50mm (4-Box) 5.0 5.75-6.75 (6.25) 1 LCP/RCP multi-box II more details tech. data
P22mm (4-Box) 2.2 12.1-12.2 (12.1)/ 12.9-13.6 (13.2) 1 LCP/RCP multi-box II more details tech. data
P19mm (4-Box) 1.9 13.5-18.7 (16.0) 1 1xlinear not available any more more details tech. data
P13mm 1.3 18-26 (22) 1 linear not available any more more details tech. data
P6mm 0.65 41.0-49.7 (45.0) 2 linear more details tech. data
S20mm Multifrequency RX 2.0 13.6-15.6 (14.60) 1 LCP/RCP more details tech. data
S13mm Multifrequency RX 1.3 21.7-24.4 (23.05) 1 LCP/RCP not available any more more details tech. data
S9mm 7-beam 0.9 30.0-34.0 (32.0) 7 (2 usable) LCP, H/V currently not available more details tech. data
S7mm Multifrequency RX 0.7 41.6-44.4 (42.9) 1 LCP/RCP more details tech. data
information_for_astronomers/rx_list.txt · Last modified: 2024/01/22 08:30 by akraus