ALMA Amplitude Calibration

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Resources:

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Amplitude Calibration Memos:

ALMA Memo 371: Receiver Calibration Schemes for ALMA (Guilloteau & Moreno)
ALMA Memo 321: Receiver Amplitude Calibration for ALMA (Plambeck)
ALMA Memo 318: Amplitude Calibration at Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths (Mangum)
ALMA Memo 225: Radiometer Calibration at the Cassegrain Secondary Mirror(Bock, Welch, Fleming, & Thornton)
ALMA Memo 211: Accurate Amplitude and Flux Calibration of the MMA (Yun, Bastian, Holdaway, Mangum, & Welch)

Amplitude Calibration Projects:

Absolute Calibration Device (Gibson and Welch)
- Progress Report 2004-06-15
- Accurate Jovian Radio Flux Density Measurements Show Ammonia to be Subsaturated in the Upper Troposphere (Gibson, Welch, and de Pater), Icarus, preprint.
Multi-Load (ML) Calibration System
- Multi-Load Calibration System Kickoff Meeting Minutes

Outstanding Issues:

ATM model of Pardo & Cernicharo has developed to the point where it can be coupled with various calibration problems, including amplitude calibration. An investigation regarding its use to determine the mean atmospheric temperature for chopper calibration needs to be made.

Utility of an FTS for opacity measurements.

Modified on 2004-Jul-30 15:41:55 EDT
Author: Jeff Mangum