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Adventures in radio astronomy instrumentation and signal processing
Includes abstract.
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Department of Electrical Engineering
2014
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| author | McMahon, Peter Leonard |
| author2 | Inggs, Michael |
| author_browse | Inggs, Michael McMahon, Peter Leonard |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| publishDate | 2014 |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/5165 Adventures in radio astronomy instrumentation and signal processing McMahon, Peter Leonard Inggs, Michael Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-119). This thesis describes the design and implementation of several instruments for digitizing and processing analogue astronomical signals collected using radio telescopes. Modern radio telescopes have significant digital signal processing demands that are typically best met using custom processing engines implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays. These demands essentially stem from the ever-larger analogue bandwidths that astronomers wish to observe, resulting in large data volumes that need to be processed in real time. We focused on the development of spectrometers for enabling improved pulsar² science on the Allen Telescope Array, the Hartebeesthoek Radio Observatory telescope, the Nançay Radio Telescope, and the Parkes Radio Telescope. We also present work that we conducted on the development of real-time pulsar timing instrumentation. 2014-07-31T10:54:48Z 2014-07-31T10:54:48Z 2008 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5165 eng application/pdf Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | McMahon, Peter Leonard Adventures in radio astronomy instrumentation and signal processing |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Adventures in radio astronomy instrumentation and signal processing |
| title_full | Adventures in radio astronomy instrumentation and signal processing |
| title_fullStr | Adventures in radio astronomy instrumentation and signal processing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adventures in radio astronomy instrumentation and signal processing |
| title_short | Adventures in radio astronomy instrumentation and signal processing |
| title_sort | adventures in radio astronomy instrumentation and signal processing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5165 |
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