Development and Performance of the Terminal System for VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP)

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The VSOP terminal is a new data-acquisition system for the very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). This terminal was primarily designed for ground telescopes in the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP). New technologies;higher-order sampling and digital filtering techniqaues, were introduced in the development. A cassette cart was also introduced, which supports 24-hour unattended operation at the maximum data rate of 256 Mbps. The higher-order sampling and digital filtering techniques achieve flat and constant phase response over bandwidth of 32 MHz without using expensive wide base-band converters. HTe digital filtering technigue also enables a variety of observing modes defined on the VSOP terminal, even with a fixed sampling modes defined on the VOSP terminal, even with a fixed sampling frequency in an A / D converter. The new terminals are installed at Nobeyama, Kashima, Usuda, Mizusawa, and Kagoshima radio observatories in Japan, and are being used in VSOP and other domestic VLBI observations. In this paper the key features of the VSOP terminal focusing on these advanced technologies are presented, and the results of performance tests are shown.
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2000-02-25