The Correlator Upgrade Project
Abstract
The ALMA 2030 Development Roadmap recommends that the top development priority is to broaden the bandwidth of ALMA by at least a factor of two. On the path to this goal, the North American ALMA Science Center together with the NRAO Central Development Lab is developing a significant upgrade to the Baseline Correlator via the Correlator Upgrade Project (CUP). In Phase 1 of the CUP, an approved ALMA development project, the correlator will have eight times more channels available for each baseband, and the downstream subsystems will be upgraded to handle the increased data rates. In Phase 2 of the CUP, the correlator would also be able to process twice the current bandwidth (assuming the electronics upstream of the correlator are also updated). I will present key science benefits from the CUP Phase 1, along with the anticipated schedule, and prospects for Phase 2 of the CUP.
- Publication:
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ALMA Development Workshop
- Pub Date:
- June 2019
- DOI:
- 10.5281/zenodo.3240327
- Bibcode:
- 2019adw..confE..11B
- Keywords:
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- Zenodo community almadevel2019