MNRF Upgrade: Atmospheric Phase Correction Project

Project Personnel

Project Scientists

• Dr. Robert Sault
  
  
• Dr. Mark Wieringa

Project Engineer

• Mr. Graeme Carrad

The System

• A broad overview of the project.
• Topical Issues and Science Questions
  
• Work in Progress
  
• Papers, references background Material

Calibrators

• Search for high frequency calibrators

Receiver System Performance

• System Temperature Projections
• Overall Sensitivity Plot
• Bandpass and correlator capacity needed at 3.5mm

Site and antennae characteristics

• Cloud cover
• The sensitivity of Mopra and ATCA as function of frequency
• Efficiencies and surface accuracies
• Transmission through 4mm of PWV and through 11mm of PWV .
• Narrabri Site Tests

Projected ATCA mm-performance

• ATCA millimetre-wave performance projection (by Peter Hall)
• Imaging performance of the ATCA at 3-mm (simulations by Mark Wieringa)
• mm Calibration Strategies for the MNRF upgrade (Ray Norris, Bob Sault, Peter Hall)
• Comparison with other mm-interferometers (by Bärbel Koribalski)