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Daniel R. AltschulerNAIC-Arecibo Observatory
The Arecibo Observatory is Part of NAIC which is operated by Cornell University under a cooperative agreement with the NSF
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Ponce
Mayaguez
Arecibo
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NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER(NAIC)
Arecibo Observatory
Operated as a visitor oriented national research Facility by Cornell University under a cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF)
FACILITIES
- 305 m Radio Telescope
Became operational in 1963Reflector surface upgrade in 1974Gregorian upgrade 1997
Optical and Lidar Laboratory
Educational Facility
RESEARCH AREAS
Radio Astronomy ~75% (galactic and extra galactic spectroscopy, pulsars, VLBI)
Planetary Studies ~ 10% (planetary surfaces, comets, asteroids)
Space and Atmospheric Sciences ~15% (ISR, LIDAR )
OPERATION
~ 140 Permanent employees (~ 18 scientific staff)
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M31 - Andromeda
Neutral Hydrogen in galaxies1420 MHz / 21 cm
Other spectral features from interstellar molecules
Pulsars – Periods from 1.57 ms to 8.5 sec
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Centaurus A – NGC5128Radio continuum
Alt
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e km
Hours
Solar Maximun Solar Minimum
Incoherent Scatter Radar (430 MHz)
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Proceedings of IRENov 1958
A parabolic reflector was initially considered but later in order to be able to reach a large area of the sky it was decided to build a sphere
1959
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November 1959 – Contract signed between Cornelland AFCRL/ARPA
Why this hole in Puerto Rico?
Karst formation offers convenient holes
Need proximity to equator to observe planets
1962
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October 29, 1962
Azimuth liftMarch 4 1963
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surface
reflector
June 1963
June1963
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August 14, 1963
The original line feed was 96 feet (29 meters) long. It was built of aluminum and had a weight of about 10,000 pounds. Operated at a frequency of 430 MHz.(Now at Learning Center)
Telescope Optics I Line feeds
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Nature 1965
April 7, 1964First radar echo form Mercury
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1 - NEW SURFACE (RMS < 3mm) HIGH FREQUENCY OPERATION(SPECTRAL LINE OF NEUTRAL HYDROGENAT 1420.405 MHz)
2 - NEW 2380 MHz RADAR (S-BAND).
JULY 1974 - PSR 1913+16 FIRST DETECTED(Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse)
First upgrade
FIRST ARECIBO UPGRADE1972 - 1974
First Upgrade – New surface
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Last Panel # 38,778 - November 1973
Discovered in 1974 at Arecibo it consists of a binary neutron star system one of which pulsates towards the Earth. The reducing orbital period represents a loss of energy, which can only be accounted for by gravitational radiation.
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The orbit of the pulsar appears to rotate with time; in the diagram, notice that the orbit is not a closed ellipse, but a continuous elliptical arc whose point of closest approach (periastron) rotates with each orbit. The rotation of the pulsar's periastron is analogous to the advance of the perihelion of Mercury in its orbit. The observed advance for PSR 1913+16 is about 4.2 degrees per year. The pulsar's periastron advances in a single day by the same amount as Mercury's perihelion advances in a century.
Nature 19
7.75 h
700,000km
35,000 x Mercury
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Hulse - Taylor Nobel Prize 1993
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GREGORIAN UPGRADE 1993 –1997
1 – Ground Screen to reduce spillover noise
2 – New drive systems including active tie-downs
3 – Replace line feeds with a reflector feed system
4 – New receivers
5 – New S-band transmitter with twice the power
6 – Improve surface accuracy of reflector to reach 10 GHz
Gregorian Optics
focus
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May 16 1996
New Transmitter in Gregorian
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Gregorian receivers
Horns
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secondary
tertiary
horns
Radio pulses from a neutron star at a distance of 2000 light years in the Virgo constellation (the pulsar PSR 1257+12) provided the first evidence for an extra-solar planetary system. Alexander Wolszczandiscovered these planets in 1991 using the Arecibo radio telescope Two planets (B y C) have masses similar to Earth, and the third one (A) is like the Moon.
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Planets orbitingPulsar 1257+12
Planet D
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Radar image of Venus using Arecibo and GBTD. Campbell, L. Carter et al.
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Venus at 2 km resolution – Arecibo radar image
NEO 1999 JM 8distance 9 million km size 3 kmresolution 15 meter
1999 jm8
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Ice on the north pole of Mercury
The brighter colors show areas that reflect radar microwaves best. These regions caused great excitement when they were discovered.Astronomers believe that the shiny circles near Mercury's Poles are patches of ice in the bottoms of craters never reached by sunlight.
400x400 km; 1.5 km resolution
ALFA, operating between 1225-1525 MHz, will consist of a cluster of seven dual-polarization feeds and cooled receivers, a fiber-optical transmission system, and digital back-end signal processors. The system will enable deep surveys of, among others, new pulsars, HI in the Milky Way Galaxy and HI in external galaxies.
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Front end built by
CSRIOAustralia Telescope National Facilty
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Pulsarserches
PULSAR SURVEYS
ALFA will discover 1000 new pulsars� Understand populations
seen in radio and gamma ray bands
� Test notion that some pulsars are strange (quark) stars
� Exotic binaries
� Test theories of binary evolution
� Test fundamental physics
• Pulsar-pulsar• Pulsar-black hole
Survey simulations by J. Cordes, D. Chernoff, and Z. Arzoumanian
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HI SEARCHESSearches for galaxies in the ZOA
Searches for underluminous objects
Large scale structure
OH megamasers 0.09 < z < 0.35
FIRST RESULTS
First Pulsar
Galactic HISurvey
Ultra Deep Survey
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Maintenance
Aerial work
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understanding
Angel Ramos Foundation Visitor Center1977
Conference Center2001
FACILITIES
125,000 visitors yearIndependently funded
OPUS
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Exhibit Program
A Scale Model of the Solar System
A Day in the life of the Arecibo Observatory
More than Meets the Eye
If we keep it up we mightget rid of this pollutionin the future
Who knows…