Technical Development

Signal processing is a fundamental key element of radio astronomy and comes into play in the entire measurement process. The innovative use of modern technologies is of particular importance here and forms the foundation for new observation and analysis methods and ultimately thus enables new scientific discoveries.

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Our mission is to provide state-of-the-art instrumentation for the detection of coherent and incoherent submillimeter radiation from space. We develop receivers and supporting hard- and software for ground-based, airborne and space observatories, and operate systems at novel telescopes like APEX.

The department supports the scientific department Radio Astronomy/VLBI (Anton Zensus) in all aspects which have to do with VLBI
• operating a VLBI software correlator on a High Performance Computer (HPC) Cluster
• development of VLBI data acquisition at the highest data rates
• developing VLBI for very short wavelengths of 1 mm
• developing software for adding the signals of all dishes of the ALMA array to a gigantic telescope for VLBI.