Collaborative Digital Instrumentation for the Radio Astronomy Community

射电天文学界的协作数字仪器

• 批准号: 0906040
• 负责人: Dan Werthimer
• 金额: $ 88.98万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0906040&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Digital; Instrumentation; Radio; Astronomy

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The intent of this research is to develop general-purpose low-cost astronomical instrumentation that can be used by interested members of the community. Traditional radio astronomy instrumentation is highly specialized one-off type of hardware. This research will develop and optimize modular, connectible, and upgradable hardware components based upon Field-Programmable Gate Array technology, and platform-independent open-architecture software to drive the hardware. The components will be usable for single dish and interferometric radio astronomy data capture and analysis, and will offer relatively low-cost, common, scalable radio astronomy instrumentation to the worldwide radio astronomy community at large.

该奖项由 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）资助。这项研究的目的是开发可供感兴趣的社区成员使用的通用低成本天文仪器。传统的射电天文仪器是高度专业化的一次性硬件。这项研究将开发和优化基于现场可编程门阵列技术的模块化、可连接和可升级的硬件组件，以及驱动硬件的独立于平台的开放式架构软件。这些组件将可用于单碟和干涉射电天文学数据捕获和分析，并将为全球射电天文学界提供相对低成本、通用、可扩展的射电天文学仪器。