4 papers
Low-cost, ultra-wideband, differential low-noise amplifier for interferometric radio telescopes
Sophia Da Costa, Albert Wai Kit Lau, Keith Vanderlinde
We present a low-cost, ultra-wideband, dual-polarized differential low-noise amplifier that eliminates the need for a pre-amplification balun. Built entirely from commercial surfac…
IQUEYE at Gemini South: instrument, science commission, and first results
Tomas Cassanelli, Pascual Marcone-Puga, Giampiero Naletto +7
The Italian quantum eye (IQUEYE) is a fast photon counter based on the single photon avalanche diode detectors and capable of preserving a ~0.5 ns/h accuracy photon time of arrival…
CHIME/FRB Outriggers: Design Overview
FRB Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Bridget C. Andersen +66
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has emerged as the world's premier facility for studying fast radio bursts (FRBs) through its fast transient search backe…
Beyond CCDs: Characterization of sCMOS detectors for optical astronomy
Aditya Khandelwal, Sarik Jeram, Ryan Dungee +7
Modern scientific complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (sCMOS) detectors provide a highly competitive alternative to charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the latter of which have hist…