Commissioning status of the Greenland Telescope (GLT)

Satoki Matsushita, Keiichi Asada, Makoto Inoue, Hiroaki Nishioka, Chih Wei L. Huang, Nimesh A. Patel, Jun Yi Koay, Shoko Koyama, Patrick Koch, Zheng Meyer-Zhao, Lupin C.C. Lin, Paul T.P. Ho, Ming Tang Chen, Timothy J. Norton, Kuan Yu Liu, Chen Yu Yu, Do Young Byun, Juan Carlos Algaba Marcos, Alex Allardi, Geoffrey C. BowerShu Hao Chang, Chung Chen Chen, Ryan Chilson, Aaron Faber, Chih Chiang Han, Yau De Huang, Homin Jiang, Derek Kubo, Ching Tang Liu, Wen Ping Lo, Pierre Martin-Cocher, Masanori Nakamura, George Nystrom, Peter Oshiro, Hung Yi Pu, Philippe Raffin, Paul Shaw, Williams Snow, Ranjani Srinivasan, Ta Shun Wei, Ryan Berthold, Daniel Bintley, Jessica Dempsey, Per Friberg, Craig Walther, Jonathan Weintroub, André Young, Ken Young, T. K. Sridharan, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Roger Brissenden, Hideo Ogawa, Kimihiro Kimura, Yutaka Hasegawa, Jinchi Hao, Kou Chang Han, Song Chu Chang, Li Ming Lu

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Abstract

The Greenland Telescope completed its construction, so the commissioning phase has been started since December 2017. Single-dish commissioning has started from the optical pointing which produced the first pointing model, followed by the radio pointing and focusing using the Moon for both the 86 GHz and the 230 GHz receivers. After Venus started to rise from the horizon, the focus positions has been improved for both receivers. Once we started the line pointing using the SiO(2-1) maser line and the CO(2-1) line for the 86 GHz and the 230 GHz receivers, respectively, the pointing accuracy also improved, and the final pointing accuracy turned to be around 3' - 5' for both receivers. In parallel, VLBI commissioning has been performed, with checking the frequency accuracy and the phase stability for all the components that would be used for the VLBI observations. After all the checks, we successfully joined the dress rehearsals and actual observations of the 86 GHz and 230 GHz VLBI observations, The first dress rehearsal data between GLT and ALMA were correlated, and successfully detected the first fringe, which confirmed that the GLT commissioning was successfully performed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGround-Based and Airborne Telescopes VII
EditorsHeather K. Marshall, Jason Spyromilio
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510619531
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
EventGround-Based and Airborne Telescopes VII 2018 - Austin, United States
Duration: 2018 Jun 102018 Jun 15

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume10700
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceGround-Based and Airborne Telescopes VII 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period2018/06/102018/06/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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