GBT High Frequency Instrumentation Development

QUICK LINKS:

Penn Array

Caltech Backend

Some Memos

Some Links

High Frequency Development Coordination

08jul02 minutes of the High Frequency Projects Coordination Meeting
12aug02 minutes of the High Frequency Projects Coordination Meeting
13sep02 status report on High Frequency Projects
13jan02 External Development Projects Status Report for sitewide projects coordination meeting
First thoughts on GBT receiver suite scheduling (10apr03)
Summary of external development project hardware and software needs, for GB 6 month project planning (26jul03)
Breakdown of some site and atmosphere related questions that we'd like to understand. (03jul03)

Penn Array Receiver (PAR)

Mailing List:

Send correspondence to: gb-par *AT* listmgr.cv.nrao.edu, or gb-par *AT* donar.cv.nrao.edu; please do not send large files (these can be manually circulated or posted to the project web pages)
Membership and Info Page (Go here to subscribe, unsubscribe, or otherwise mess around)
Archive
list of members
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Points of Contact:

The Devlin Lab (215)573-7558
Brian Mason (304)456-5516
Dominic Benford (301)286-8771
U.Penn's Penn Array project web page (ask Brian for the username & password if you don't have it)
UPenn's Penn Array Public Web Page
Penn Array planning and management wiki page
Penn Array project wiki page (technical work and documents)
Upenn telecon instructions

Other useful stuff (agendas, meeting minutes, documents and drafts, etc.):

10jul02 Progress Report minutes

16-17dec02 Detector Meeting (at U.Penn) notes by BSM

14mar03 videocon agenda and minutes

Penn Array Block Diagram (24mar03)

Software Interface guidelines (01apr03)

Draft statement of final detector and array parameters for the cdr -- aka "cdr issues" (29apr03, bsm)

GB meeting on Penn array interfaces minutes (07may03)

Fridge cycle procedure (08may03, bsm w/Mark Supanich)

GB/Penn Electronics Interfaces & Packaging telecon minutes (09may03)

my questions for NIST about the mark III MUX (15may03)

NIST Mark III Mux documentation from Joshua Forgione (09may03): handbook; paper on the mux, figures from the paper.

NIST MUX Python Scripts are at ~bmason/gbt-dev/par/mux/python (received 20may03; belatedly posted 20aug03)

minutes from GB Penn Array CDR needs meeting (04jun03)

minutes from the 06jun03 Penn/GB Telecon (06jun03)

Simon Dicker's drawing of the outside of the dewar (09jun03)

Draft list of drawings for CDR (12jun03)

Examples of documentation (12jun03)

Prime Focus 2 (PF2) Receiver Hardware/Software Interface Document

A not-necessarily comprehensive list of stuff we need to do before the CDR

Handbook to Running the Cryogenics (13jun03, from Mark Supanich)

Wiring Diagram (24jun03, Mark Supanich)

Project Meeting Agenda, v2 (01jul03)

Simon Dicker's revised Gantt Chart (30may03)

Minutes from the 02/03 jul03 Project Meeting in Green Bank (04jul03)

Michelle Caler's writeup of BLAST Calibrators (08jul03)

Simon Dicker's Optics Design memo (posted 09jul03)

GBT Turret Accelerometer Measurements report [ps,pdf] (24jul03, Roger Norrod)

Cryo Document with Melinda Mello's comments and questions (06aug03)

Dominic's Paper about the MUX (posted 12aug03)

Simon Dicker's Paper on the Cryogenics (27aug03)

Document Templates for the CDR (latex tex, sty; MSword doc)

Draft CDR Document #3: Control and Analysis Software and the software Gantt chart (fist posted 23sep03; rev 26sep03 posted 08oct03)

Draft CDR Document #2: Project Overview (first posted 25sep03)

Jeff Cromer's RFI Enclosure draft drawings (ps: 1, 2) (posted 09oct03)

Simon Dicker's Optics Specification for Cardiff (posted 03nov03)

Draft Response to Panel Report (posted 04nov03)

The Panel's Report (fully contained in the draft response above)

Brian's Notes from the 13/14 Nov 03 GSFC meeting (18nov03)

Answers to Melinda's DAQ Interface Questions (18nov03)

National Instruments GPIB-PCI manual

Darrel Emerson's 94 GHz Cloud Radar writeup for ALMA (31aug04)

Power Conditioning Card Manual (from Dominic, 31mar05; PDF file)

Warm Electronics Crate Bill of Materials (from Dominic, 31mar05, excel spreadsheet)

Josh Forgione's 16jun05 MkIII Status report (msword doc)

linux source code for the NIST PCI card driver (27jun05)

some pictures of the penn array dewar (02aug05)

photos of the penn array on the gbt

Detector Photos 1 2 (03nov05 from Dominic)

Josh Forgione's v9 DFB Quartus Archive (03jan06-- Final version)

Summary of results from 2nd array cooldown (11apr06, Phil Korngut & Simon Dicker)

damaged bandpass filter (17apr06, Simon Dicker)

Summary of tests and Interpretation on Detector Array no.2

Plots of locked-up detector data collected 20jul06

IPR presentations

Fall 2006 commissioning results (PDF, March 2007)

Fall 2006 Commissioning-- Cryogenics Performance (PDF, Jan 2007, Dicker \& Korngut)

a more exhaustive characterization of the Fall06 Detector Array properties for the Feb 2007 Detector review at NASA (PDF, Feb 2007, Dicker, Korngut, \& Mason)

Caltech Continuum Backend (CCB)

Mailing List:

Send correspondence to: gb-ccb *AT* listmgr.cv.nrao.edu, or gb-ccb *AT* donar.cv.nrao.edu; please do not send large files (these can be manually circulated or posted to the project web pages)
Membership and Info Page (Go here to subscribe, unsubscribe, or otherwise mess around)
Archive (note: soon after creation I changed archiving from monthly to quarterly)
list of members
bmason is the administrator of this list.

Points of Contact:

Brian (215)456-5516
Caltech's CCB project web page
CCB (CCB's planning and management wiki page)
CCB project wiki page

Other useful stuff (agendas, meeting minutes, documents and drafts, etc.):

Steve Padin's initial 1cm rx design document
NRAO comments on an early draft of the Caltech proposal ("obsolete drafts" on their project web page)
PDR Minutes & Summary (mtg Fri 06sep02)
Summary of Interfaces
Caltech Backend Use Cases (march 2004-- draft)
Minutes from 07 July 2003 Videocon
Rich Lacasse's Opto-Isolator diagrams: pg1,pg2 (posted 18aug03)
John Ford's connector sketch (posted 31aug03)
Randy McCullough's Digital Cabling Diagram marked up with his comments (08oct03)
Memo on GBT drawing numbering scheme (pdf, posted 31oct03)
Randy McCullough's detector amplifier design (13jan03; Rev H)
Total system noise spreadsheet including the electronics contribution (17dec03)
Suggested CCB system design from Randy McCullough et al: overall system layout, individual module layout, description (12feb04)
Monitoring systems specifications: description (msword) ; internal monitoring system spreadsheet (xls); GPIO monitoring points spreadsheet (xls); diagram (jpeg) (20jul05, RM)
CCB Front Panel Layout (Randy McCullough, 01aug05; ZIP file)
Pictures of the CCB (16aug05)
victory picture 1 , victory picture 2, victory picture 3
jul 2006: First ccb declared commissioned and successfull; 2nd physical ccb unit completed and tested in the lab; project finished except for assembly and testing of the remaining two physical CCBs!

Some Writeups of Related Work

Correlation Radiometer Observing Modes & Calibration (11aug02)
First Thoughts on Penn Array Imaging (03dec02)
Penn Array Data Analysis Scenarios (04apr03)
GBT Bolometer Array science case review (24jun03)
Test scan pattern proposal/description, results (``daisy petal scans''; posted 12feb04)
Proper Ka/CCB calibration formalism and results (feb09)

Links

U.Penn's Penn Array web page (ask Brian for the username & password if you don't have it)
Caltech's CCB project web page
GB/GBT Technical Resources
- Ron Maddalena's Water Vapor Oracle
- A Short Guide to the GBT
- GBT Manual (somewhat outdated)
- Precision Telescope Control System (PTCS) Home Page
- 1 cm Rx
- 3 mm Rx
- GB Tipper Page (not currently maintained)
- GBT Monitor and Control Software Project Notes
- CLEO documentation (includes an excellent overview of the GBT Ygor Monitor & Control System)
- Mark Clark's article describing the YGOR Monitor & Control System
- GBT commissioning memo repository
- High Frequency Commissioning wiki area (fall 2005 onwards)
GB and NRAO Organizational Resources:
- doodle
- NRAO Room Reservation Calendar
- GBT schedules (includes monthly observing schedule, project search, resource calendar, etc)
- GBT High Frequency Workshop web page (8 & 9 Sep 2003, in Green Bank)

Brian S. Mason (NRAO)