Backends for the 100-m telescope

For continuum observations:

  • BEACON (Backend for advanced continuum observations)
  • Several receivers are equipped with polarimeters (e.g. secondary receivers at 2.8cm, 3.6cm, and 6cm. See also
    the technical information on the receiver page).
  • 8-Bank polarimeter for the 18/21cm- and for the 11cm-receiver

For spectroscopy:

A description of the FFT spectrometers and how they work can be found in the paper of Klein et al.


For pulsar observations:

  • Digital Filter Bank (DFB)
  • Search-Backend (P-FFTS)

For VLBI observations:

  • dBBC (FS9-type)
  • RDBE (VLBA-type)
  • MK 5 recorder
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