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Fast Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FFTS)

General

Configuration

The FFTS contains two individual units which can be connected to one or two receivers through the IF processor. Both units have a bandwidth of 1GHz, thus providing either 1GHz bandwidth for two receivers simultaneously or 2GHz bandwidth for one receiver.

Instrument Bandwidth # of channels channel separation
FFTS 1GHz 1024 976.56kHz
2048 488.28kHz
4096 244.14kHz
8192 122.07kHz
16384 61.035kHz

 


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Last update : February 26, 2006