[evlatests] A curious new birdie at X-band
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Tue Jul 23 11:50:24 EDT 2013
As part of the 'receiver rotation' experiment, I've taken wideband
data covering all of L, S, C, and X bands.
Looking at the higher half of X-band (10 to 12 GHz), one, and only
one, piece of RFI is seen. It's a pure tone, at
10750 MHz
This is not a harmonic of 128 MHz (but is close -- the 84th harmonic
is 10752 MHz). No other birdies are seen, so this tone is definitely
special.
And it's only seen on antennas near the center of the array --
strongly arguing for a local origin.
The autocorrelations are useful for diagnosis -- unfortunately, only
half the antennas provide this (what do we have to do to get them all?)
Antennas with strong 10750 MHz tone are:
ea13 at W02
ea15 at E02
ea22 at N02
Antennas with detectable tone (but weaker than above list) are:
ea05 at W08
ea09 at W10
ea11 at W06
ea24 at W04
ea 26 at W12
Antennas with no visible tone (in autocorrrelations) are:
ea01 at N14
ea03 at E10
ea07 at E12
ea17 at E14
ea19 at W16
ea28 at E16
All other antennas provided no autocorrelations.
The cross-correlation data are consistent with a local origin, near
the array center.
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