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16-07-2015
AAVS1 detailed design meeting
| Submitter: | Pieter Benthem |
| Description: | During the last week of May 2015, the AAVS1 design team (and two SKAO members) joined efforts on the beautiful island of Malta, to attend the AAVS1 Detailed Design Meeting, hosted by the university of Malta. The Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS1) will verify the end-to-end signal path of the Low Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) from antenna to the output of the station beamformer. AAVS1 shall include all the components required to receive low frequency electromagnetic signals and to correlate the beams formed. LFAA is a major system and part of the Low Telescope which will be constructed in Western Australia at the Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO) as part of the first phase of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory. AAVS1 will also be built at the MRO, at a separate location near to the SKA1_LOW Telescope. AAVS1 will comprise a main array (256 elements), representative of an SKA1_LOW station, and additional hardware, software and infrastructure to verify the functional and performance characteristics of this main array. In particular, the MWA telescope (including MWA post-processing pipelines) will be used for verification of the main station. Also, three auxiliary AAVS1 stations (48 elements each) will be constructed for more detailed system verification. AAVS1 shall include all the components required to receive low frequency electromagnetic signals and to cross-correlate the beams formed by the main station and auxiliary stations. Our next major milestone is the AAVS1-SRR, 2nd July 2015. |
| Copyright: | Kris Zarb Adami |
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