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CARMA, and the CARMA CARMA, and the CARMA WVR effortWVR effort
Alberto BolattoAlberto BolattoAssociate Research AstronomerAssociate Research Astronomer
U.C. Berkeley AstronomyU.C. Berkeley AstronomyRadio Astronomy LabRadio Astronomy Lab
Dick Plambeck (UCB/RAL), Dave Woody (Caltech), Leslie Looney, Yu-Shao Shiao (UI),
Douglas Bock (CARMA)
WVR workshop WVR workshop Wettzell 2006Wettzell 2006
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Outline
• What is CARMA?
• The OVRO experience
• The RAL correlation radiometer
• What next?
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+ UChicago SZA 8 3.5-m antennas
Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland array
10 6.1-m diameter antennas
Caltech array 6 10.4-m antennas
CEDAR FLAT
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Cedar Flat – elevation 2200m
June 2004August 2005
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21 Jul 2004 – lifting off the first reflector
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panel adjustmentsurface error determined from holography
before adjustment: 127 μm rms
→ 75% loss at 225 GHz
after adjustment: 28 μm rms
→ 7% loss at 225 GHz
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all antennas assembled10 Aug 2005
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Comparison with other arrays
CARMA
+ SZASMA IRAM ALMA
elevation 2200 m 4200 2500 5000
antennas 23 8 6 50+
baselines 253 28 15 1225+
diameter 10, 6, 3.5 6 15 12, 7
area 850 m2 226 1060 5600+
max baseline
1900 m 500 m 400 m 14 km
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E, D configurations
Now
1.6 km
baselines 8–150 m
1mm beam: 2”
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E, D, C configurations
for Winter 2005
1.6 km
baselines 8–350 m
1mm beam: 0.8”
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E, D, C, B, B+ configurations
for Winter 2006
1.6 km
baselines 8–1700 m
1mm beam: 0.2”
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E, D, C, B, A configurations
for Winter 2008
1.6 km
baselines 8–1900 m
1mm beam: 0.13”
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225 GHz zenith opacity
% tau mm H2O
SSB Tsys
25 <.12 <1.8 <290
50 <.16 <2.4 <350
75 <.28 <4.3 <520
Tsys computed for 1.5 airmasses, Trcvr(DSB) = 45 K
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OVRO WVR
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Sample phase improvement
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It can work, but…
• Can it work reliably?
• It’s easy to improve very bad tracks, but good tracks can be worsen
• Only works for ~40% of the dataY.-S. Shiao et al., SPIE, (2006)
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Correlation WVR at 22 GHz
• Correlation receiver: less sensitive to amplifier gain variations, no moving parts, built-in absolute calibration. Fast control of temperature of reference for nulling: ultimate stability.
• Weak points: complexity, sensitive to spurious correlations
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Expected performance
• Measured amplifier performance based on Hittite commercial HMC 281 GaAs mmic ($40):
Tnoise ~55 K, G ~23 dB, BP ~16-36 GHz • Expect Tsys ~ 140 K, or RMS ~5 mK in 1s in 1 GHz
hot spill~3% (9 K), input w.g. loss~0.5 dB (32 K), hybrid+w.g./coax loss~0.3 dB (4 K), 2nd amp stage~5-10 K
• Assuming canonical ~4.5 mm/K @ 22.2 GHz expect path RMS ~20 mm in 1s
• Performance will be degraded by control of load temperature, thermometry, spectral baseline removal, etc, but there is a safe margin /20 goal is ~60 mm
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Block diagram
x2
CARMA X-band
CTL
CANbus uP + DAQ
22 GHz optics
180 hybrid/magic T
BIMA dewar
HMC 281 cryo amps
DITOM D3I1826DUAL HMC281
NARDA 4017C-10
MARKI M1R-0726L
18-26 GHz
ASTRONOMY IF
MCL SLP-550
NARDA 4317B-2D0612LA
9-13.5 GHz YIG OSC.
DETECTOR
4-q multiplier
180° PHASE SWITCH
WR42 th. gap + window
12 K stage
40 K stage
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The ReceiverK band
cryo amp (x4)
Controled temp. load
Magic-tee
hybrid
Thermal clamp to 12
K stage
Input (to
horn)
Input (to
horn)
K band cryo amp
(x4)
Thermal clamp to 12
K stageControled temp. load
Magic-tee
hybrid
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The Controlled Temperature Load
Cernox sensor chip on top of inverted 50 Ω
alumina resistor
10 mil 50 Ω quartz μstrip
Heater biasing
wire
• Load + sensor mass is 3 mg: fast temperature response
• Once mounted, sensors are calibrated against standards
•S11~-20 dB
Brass pedestal
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The Amplifiers
HittiteHMC 281
12 amps put together by Dusty Madison, a freshman summer
student who learned to assemble and wirebond them
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The Dewar “Insert”
• Minimum impact on existing BIMA dewar
• No internal screws/electrical connections: just plugs in
• Special 2-port test dewar designed and fabricated
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Other HardwareLO/
downconverter
LO/downconverter
IF/MultiplierIF/Multiplier
MicrocontrollerMicrocontroller Signal conditioning
Signal conditioning
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The Complete SystemWVR
dewar “inserts”
LO chain and downconvert
er
IF chain, AGC,
multiplier, phase
switching, and filters
Signal conditionin
g and control
electronics
XAC uP, ADC, DAC,
and CANbus
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Nice idea, but it has proven difficult to make it work
• Tests looking into heated cryogenic waveguide load in 2nd dewar
• Non flat passband– Slope is caused by
imperfect hybrid– Central feature is
from CTL wg adaptor
– Edges not quite understood
– A few K of “extra” correlation, probably reflections in hybrid
Status May 2005Status May 2005
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Nice idea, but it has proven difficult to make it work
• Spurious correlation due to internal coherent reflections– Could be mitigated
with input isolators
• Even without moving parts, calibration is not repeatable enough– Difficult to attain the
mK calibrability goal
• Further work?
Status May 2005Status May 2005
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What next?• Revert to basics – Simple is beautiful• Implement a Dicke-switch radiometer
– Room temperature: use noise diode– Cryogenic: use controlled temperature load
LOCTL
DETe.g. AD8309
Dicke-WVR assembly using CTL
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Conclusions• Phase correction schemes improve correlation
for a fraction of the tracks, but not all the time. Atmosphere or engineering?
• Nulling correlation radiometers are nice in theory, very difficult in practice. Large part count and complexity makes them unattractive for (university based) interferometers.
• Dickey-switch type schemes are considerably simpler, and more attractive if stability of 1:10,000 can be attained. Partial successes at PdBI, VLA, and ALMA/SMA suggest they are viable.