[evlatests] 128 MHz RFI comb in Q-band ...
Rob Long
rlong at nrao.edu
Thu Dec 15 12:39:10 EST 2011
Are these comb lines only visible in correlated data, or can they be
seen in raw bandpass plots?
Rob
Rick Perley wrote:
> The last time a full spectra sweep was run (March of this year), I
> found a remarkable set of comb-like interferors at the high end of Q-band.
> The recent sweep shows these are still present. They have
> interesting properties:
>
> 1) They are visible only at the high end of Q-band.
> 2) They are at integer multiples of 128 MHz (starting at 379*128).
> 3) They are present only on a few tens of baselines. Antennas which
> have by far the strongest birdies are: 14, 21, 11 and 22.
> 4) These antennas are all near the center of the array (W3, E3, E1,
> and N2, respectively). However, other antennas in this vicinity show
> very weak, or no, lines at all. So I suggest we look first at these
> four antennas for an origin.
>
>
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