Sense and sensitivity: How ALMA receivers work

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Sep 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010alman...6...11w&link_type=abstract

ALMA Newsletter, vol. 6, p. 11-16

Physics

Alma

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In previous articles, we described how electromagnetic waves emitted from objects in the sky are collected by the ALMA antennas (Anatomy of ALMA), and how they are combined in order to produce images. Before these images can be processed, they are picked up by the antennas and concentrated by the large main mirror and a smaller secondary mirror in the so called focal point of each antenna. In order to process the data they must be first converted to electromagnetic waves of a lower frequency and amplified. This is the role of the ALMA receivers. In principle they work like a normal FM receiver, but at much higher frequencies. Here we describe how they work and what makes them special.

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