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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
P500mm 92-30 0.3-0.9 (0.6) 1 LCP/RCP new, under test more details tech. data
P300mm (4-Box) 30 0.8-1.3 (1.05) 1 LCP/RCP multi-box II more details tech. data
P217mm 7-Beam 21 1.27-1.45 (1.36) 7 LCP/RCP, linear more details tech. data
P200mm (4-Box) 18/21 1.29-1.43 (1.36) / 1.57-1.71 (1.65) 1 LCP/RCP multi-box I, polarimeter more details tech. data
P170mm UBB 50-10 0.6-3.0 (1.8) 1 LCP/RCP new, under test more details
P90mm 9.0 2.9-3.1 (3.0) / 3.3-3.6 (3.45) 1 linear 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
P26mm (4-Box) 2.6 11.7 1 linear holography RX, multi-box I more details
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 linear multi-box I more details tech. data
P13mm 1.3 18-26 (22) 1 linear more details tech. data
P10mm (4-Box) 1.0 27.0-36.7 (32.0) 1 linear multi-box I more details tech. data
P6mm 0.65 41.0-49.7 (45.0) 2 linear more details tech. data
P3mm (4-Box) 0.3 84.0-95.5 (89.0) 2 LCP/RCP multi-box II 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 geo-VLBI more details tech. data
S110mm 11 2.6-2.68 (2.64) 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
S36mm 3.6 7.9-9.0 (8.35) 1 LCP/RCP polarimeter more details tech. data
S28mm 4-beam 2.8 10.3-10.6 (10.45) 4 LCP/RCP polarimeter 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 more details tech. data
S9mm 7-beam 0.9 30.0-34.0 (32.0) 7 LCP/RCP, linear more details tech. data
S7mm Multifrequency RX 0.7 41.6-44.4 (42.9) 1 LCP/RCP more details tech. data
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