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From: | Glen I Langston |
Subject: | Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Event Detection and Spectral Line Radio Astronomy Working. |
Date: | Tue, 9 Apr 2019 15:00:51 -0400 |
Hi Marcus, Thanks for your comments. Looks like you’ve been making very good progress at your observatory. On Apr 9, 2019, at 1:50 PM, Marcus D. Leech <address@hidden> wrote:... The radio astronomy graphs have been used with Airspy, Airspy-mini, the various RTLSDR dongles, PlutoSdr and LimeSdrSo, one of the problems with "singleton" events is that they aren't unambiguously "the thing that you're looking for". Glitches from and did see a pattern in the event rate with a single horn. Plot below shows most events are found during the day, and maybe are due to airplanes, spacecraft or Sun. We see a dramatic drop in rates at night. Concerning immediate confirmation, we also have had two horns observing simultaneously and do see rough coincidence between the events in the two horns. The data are not completely conclusive and I’m preparing to make some software changes to get better time tagging of events. My goal is to get 4 horns arranged in a “Y” and correlate the common events, since we’re recording time tagged voltages. With a total spacing of 40’, we might achieve localization of about 1 degree uncertainty on the sky. All 4 horns have computers that are time-served by the same local, GPS-based, time server computer on the network. That's not likely to be fruitful. The PlutoSDR internal ARM CPU is in no way "up to the task", and the FPGA is rather full, but if it's “unixpunk”. They’ve put a pretty powerful version of the PlutoSdr firmware on the web. We’d like to update the Pluto firmware to perform this task, while simultaneously allowing Gnuradio to Best regards, Glen |
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