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M. Chavez, D. Hughes and LMT Project Team, “The Large Millimeter Telescope and Solar Like Stars, New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics III: A Panchromatic View of Solar-Like Stars, With and Without Planets,” M. Chavez, E. Bertone, O. Vega and V. De la Luz, Eds., Proceedings of an International Conference held at Puerto Vallarta, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2013, pp. 279-289.

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• TITLE: High-Resolution Broadband Millimeter-Wave Astrophysical Spectrometer with Triple Product Acousto-Optical Processor

  AUTHORS: Miguel Chavez Dagostino, Alexandre S. Shcherbakov, Adan Omar Arellanes, Vahram Chavushyan

  KEYWORDS: Astrophysical Instrumentation; Radio-Astronomy; Millimeter-Wave Spectrometer; Space-and-Time Integrating; Acousto-Optical Devices; Optical Processing System

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.3 No.4, December 4, 2013

  ABSTRACT: An advanced conceptual design of a high-bit-rate triple product acousto-optical processor is presented that can be applied in a number of astrophysical problems. We briefly describe the Large Millimeter Telescope as one of the potential observational infrastructures where the acousto-optical spectrometer can be successfully used. A summary on the study of molecular gas in relatively old (age > 10 Myr) disks around main sequence stars is provided. We have identified this as one of the science cases in which the proposed processor can have a big impact. Then we put forward triple product acousto-optical processor is able to realize algorithm of the space-and-time integrating, which is desirable for a wideband spectrum analysis of radio-wave signals with an improved resolution providing the resolution power of about 105 - 106. It includes 1D-acousto-optic cells as the input devices for a 2D-optical data processing. The importance of this algorithm is based on exploiting the chirp Z-transform technique providing a 2D-Fourier transform of the input signals. The system produces the folded spectrum, accumulating advantages of both space and time integrating. Its frequency bandwidth is practically equal to the bandwidth of transducers inherent in acousto-optical cells. Then, similar processor is able to provide really high frequency resolution, which is practically equal to the reciprocal of the CCD-matrix photo-detector integration time. Here, the current state of developing the triple product acousto-optical processor in frames of the astrophysical instrumentation is shortly discussed.