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使用ALMA对太阳进行快速单碟扫描

Fast single-dish scans of the Sun using ALMA

Neil Phillips, Richard Hills, Tim Bastian, Hugh Hudson, Ralph Marson, Sven Wedemeyer

摘要:

我们已经实现了控制和数据采集软件,可以扫描各个ALMA天线的波束,以执行相当复杂的模式,同时以高速率记录信号。我们在2014年9月和12月对太阳进行了测试观测。返回的数据质量非常好;特别是它们使我们能够描述这种观测中存在的噪声和信号波动。快速扫描实验包括覆盖矩形区域的李萨如图案,以及整个太阳盘的双圆图案和特定盘形目标的较小重复地图。用后者,我们可以在60秒内对波段6(230 GHz)的光束在直径为300 $"$的区域内进行近似奈奎斯特采样。这些图显示了高达1000 K的峰-峰亮度-温度范围,而在任何给定点的时间序列变化似乎是在几分钟的时间内的0.5% RMS的顺序。因此,我们希望能够将透明度波动引起的噪声贡献与太阳本身的变化分开。这样的时间序列有许多优点,尽管非干涉观测。特别是,这些数据应使人们有可能观测活动区的微耀斑和太阳盘和低日冕任何部分的纳米耀斑。

英文摘要:

We have implemented control and data-taking software that makes it possible to scan the beams of individual ALMA antennas to perform quite complex patterns while recording the signals at high rates. We conducted test observations of the Sun in September and December, 2014. The data returned have excellent quality; in particular they allow us to characterize the noise and signal fluctuations present in this kind of observation. The fast-scan experiments included both Lissajous patterns covering rectangular areas, and double-circle patterns of the whole disk of the Sun and smaller repeated maps of specific disk-shaped targets. With the latter we find that we can achieve roughly Nyquist sampling of the Band~6 (230~GHz) beam in 60~s over a region 300$"$ in diameter. These maps show a peak-to-peak brightness-temperature range of up to 1000~K, while the time-series variability at any given point appears to be of order 0.5 percent RMS over times of a few minutes. We thus expect to be able to separate the noise contributions due to transparency fluctuations from variations in the Sun itself. Such timeseries have many advantages, in spite of the non-interferometric observations. In particular such data should make it possible to observe microflares in active regions and nanoflares in any part of the solar disk and low corona.

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