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First Results Using a K-Band Maser Receiver on the Parkes 64-m Radio Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. A. Batchelor ,
J. L. Caswell ,
J. R. Forster  and
K. J. Wellington
R. A. Batchelor
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
J. L. Caswell
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
J. R. Forster
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
K. J. Wellington
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
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A new maser receiver, operating between 20 and 24 GHz and constructed by the radiometer group at the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, was first scheduled for astronomical observations in December 1981. In good observing conditions the system temperature was as low as 60 K. In conjunction with the versatility of the 1024-channel correlator and the large collecting area of the Parkes telescope (the central 37 m illuminated at 22 GHz yields a ratio of flux density to antenna temperature of 9∼ Jy K-1) the total system is a very powerful new tool. Here we report some observations of naturally occuring celestial H2O masers which we have studied with this system.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , 1982 , pp. 451 - 453
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1982

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