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Software Polarization Spectrometer "polariS"
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Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85053148410
DOI 10.1142/S225117171450010X
Año 2014
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Abstract



We have developed a software-based polarization spectrometer, PolariS, to acquire full-Stokes spectra with a very high spectral resolution of 61 Hz. The primary aim of PolariS is to measure the magnetic fields in dense star-forming cores by detecting the Zeeman splitting of molecular emission lines. The spectrometer consists of a commercially available digital sampler and a Linux computer. The computer is equipped with a graphics processing unit (GPU) to process FFT and cross-correlation using the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) library developed by NVIDIA. Thanks to a high degree of precision in quantization of the analog-to-digital converter and arithmetic in the GPU, PolariS offers excellent performances in linearity, dynamic range, sensitivity, bandpass flatness and stability. The software has been released under the MIT License and is available to the public. In this paper, we report the design of PolariS and its performance verified through engineering tests and commissioning observations.

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Publicaciones WoS (Ediciones: ISSHP, ISTP, AHCI, SSCI, SCI), Scopus, SciELO Chile.

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Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 Mizuno, Izumi Mujer Kagoshima University - Japón
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
2 Kameno, Seiji Hombre Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array - Chile
3 Kano, Amane - Kagoshima University - Japón
4 Kuroo, Makoto Hombre Shoyo High School - Japón
5 Nakamura, Fumitaka - National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
6 Kawaguchi, Noriyuki Hombre National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
7 Shibata, Katsunori M. Hombre National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
8 Kuji, Seisuke - National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón
9 Kuno, Nario - National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Japón

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Financiamiento



Fuente
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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Agradecimiento
The development of PolariS is supported by the FY2012 Joint Development Research program of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Japan (24244017). We thank the staff and students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Kagoshima University for assistance with fundamental tests using the VERA Iriki station. We are grateful to the staff of the Mizusawa VLBI Observatory for technical support and commissioning. The authors thank the staff at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) for operations of the 45-m radio telescope in the commissioning science verification. NRO is a division of the National Astronomical Observatory, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan.

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