Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-09-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
to appear in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Vol.62, No.5; 12 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
We propose a new method to measure the system noise temperature, $T_{\rm sys}$, using a 2-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The statistics of the digitized signal in a four-level quantization brings us information about the bias voltage and the variance, which reflects the power of the input signal. Comparison of the variances in {\it hot} and {\it sky} circumstances yields $T_{\rm sys}$ without a power meter. We performed test experiments using the Kagoshima 6-m radio telescope and a 2-bit ADC to verify this method. Linearity in the power-variance relation was better than 99% within the dynamic range of 10 dB. Digitally measured $T_{\rm sys}$ coincided with that of conventional measurement with a power meter in 1.8-% difference or less for elevations of $10^{\circ} - 88^{\circ}$. No significant impact was found by the bias voltages within the range between -3.7 and +12.8% with respect to the threshold voltage. The proposed method is available for existing interferometers that have a multi-level ADC, and release us from troubles caused by power meters.
Kameno Seiji
Nakatake Aki
Takeda Koji
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