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Title

The Australian experience with the PC-EVN recorder

Author(s)

Briggs, Franklin H.;  Dodson, R. G.;  Phillips, Chris;  Ritakari, J.;  Tingay, Steven J.;  Tzioumis, Anastasios K.;  West, Craig

Abstract

We report on our experiences using the Metsähovi Radio Observatory's (MRO) VLBI Standard Interface (VSI, Whitney 2002) recorder in a number of astronomical applications. The PC-EVN device is a direct memory access (DMA) interface which allows 512 megabit per second (Mbps) or better recording to “off the shelf” PC components. We have used this setup to record at 640 Mbps for a pulsar coherent dispersion system and at 256 Mpbs for a global VLBI session. We have also demonstrated recording at 512 Mbps and will shortly form cross correlations between the CPSR-II and the PC-EVN systems.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Source

Paper presented to the 7th Symposium of the European VLBI Network on New Developments in VLBI Science and Technology, Toledo, Spain, October 12-15 2004.

Publication year

2004

Publisher

Observatorio Astronomico Nacional

Format

pp. 253-256

Publisher URL

http://www.oan.es/evn2004/WebPage/proceedings.html