The SKA Dish SPF and LMC Interaction Design: Interfaces, Simulation, Testing and Integration

Marassi, Alessandro; Kotze, Jean; Riggi, Simone; SchillirÃ², Francesco; Smit, George; Steyn, Theunis; van Niekerk, Charl

doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-THPHA142

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TY - CONF
AU - Marassi, A.
AU - Kotze, J.
AU - Riggi, S.
AU - SchillirÃ², F.
AU - Smit, G.
AU - Steyn, T.J.
AU - van Niekerk, C.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Costa, Isidre
ED - FernÃ¡ndez, David
ED - Matilla, Ãscar
TI - The SKA Dish SPF and LMC Interaction Design: Interfaces, Simulation, Testing and Integration
J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2017, Barcelona, Spain, 8-13 October 2017
C1 - Barcelona, Spain
T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems
T3 - 16
LA - english
AB - The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is responsible for developing the SKA Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope ever built: eventually two arrays of radio antennas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be installed in the South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's Murchison Shire respectively, each covering a different range of radio frequencies. In particular, the SKA1-Mid array will comprise of 133 15m diameter dish antennas observing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range, each locally managed by a Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) system and remotely orchestrated by the SKA Telescope Manager (TM) system. All control system functionality run on the Tango Controls platform. The Dish Single Pixel Feed (SPF) work element will design the combination of feed elements, orthomode transducers (OMTs), and low noise amplifiers (LNAs) that receive the astronomical radio signals. Some SPFs have cryogenically cooled chambers to obtain the sensitivity requirements. This paper gives a status update of the SKA Dish SPF and LMC interaction design, focusing on SPF, LMC simulators and engineering/operational user interfaces, prototypes being developed and technological choices.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 1712
EP - 1715
KW - ion
KW - controls
KW - interface
KW - TANGO
KW - monitoring
DA - 2018/01
PY - 2018
SN - 978-3-95450-193-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-THPHA142
UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2017/papers/thpha142.pdf
ER -