Characterisation of the MALT90 Survey and the Mopra Telescope at 90 GHz

被引：50

作者：

Foster, J. B. ^{[1
,2
]}

Rathborne, J. M. ^{[3
]}

Sanhueza, P. ^{[2
]}

Claysmith, C. ^{[2
]}

Whitaker, J. S. ^{[4
]}

Jackson, J. M. ^{[2
]}

Mascoop, J. L. ^{[2
]}

Wienen, M. ^{[5
]}

Breen, S. L. ^{[3
]}

Herpin, F. ^{[6
,7
]}

Duarte-Cabral, A. ^{[6
,7
]}

Csengeri, T. ^{[5
]}

Contreras, Y. ^{[3
]}

Indermuehle, B. ^{[3
]}

Barnes, P. J. ^{[8
]}

Walsh, A. J. ^{[9
]}

Cunningham, M. R. ^{[10
]}

Britton, T. R. ^{[3
,11
]}

Voronkov, M. A. ^{[3
]}

Urquhart, J. S. ^{[5
]}

Alves, J. ^{[12
]}

Jordan, C. H. ^{[3
,13
]}

Hill, T. ^{[14
,15
]}

Hoq, S. ^{[2
]}

Brooks, K. J. ^{[3
]}

Longmore, S. N. ^{[16
,17
]}

机构：

[1] Yale Univ, Yale Ctr Astron & Astrophys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[2] Boston Univ, Inst Astrophys Res, Boston, MA 02215 USA

[3] CSIRO Astron & Space Sci, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia

[4] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA

[5] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, D-53121 Bonn, Germany

[6] Univ Bordeaux, LAB, UMR 5804, F-33270 Floirac, France

[7] CNRS, LAB, UMR 5804, F-33270 Floirac, France

[8] Univ Florida, Dept Astron, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

[9] Curtin Univ, Int Ctr Radio Astron Res, Perth, WA 6845, Australia

[10] Univ New S Wales, Sch Phys, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

[11] Macquarie Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

[12] Univ Vienna, Dept Astrophys, A-1180 Vienna, Austria

[13] Univ Tasmania, Sch Math & Phys, Hobart, Tas 7001, Australia

[14] Univ Paris Diderot, CEA Saclay, CNRS, CEA,IRFU,INSU,Lab AIM Paris Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France

[15] Joint ALMA Observ, Santiago 7630355, Chile

[16] Liverpool John Moores Univ, Astrophys Res Inst, Birkenhead CH41 1LD, Merseyside, England

[17] European So Observ, D-85748 Garching, Germany

来源：

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA | 2013年 / 30卷

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

astrochemistry; H II regions; instrumentation: spectrographs; ISM: individual (RCW 65); radio lines: ISM; telescopes; ULTRACOMPACT HII-REGIONS; RADIO TELESCOPE; TIME-VARIATION; MASSIVE STARS; OH MASERS; EMISSION; METHANOL; VARIABILITY;

D O I：

10.1017/pasa.2013.18

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We characterise the Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz Survey (MALT90) and the Mopra telescope at 90 GHz. We combine repeated position-switched observations of the source G300.968+01.145 with a map of the same source in order to estimate the pointing reliability of the position-switched observations and, by extension, the MALT90 survey; we estimate our pointing uncertainty to be 8 arcsec. We model the two strongest sources of systematic gain variability as functions of elevation and time-of-day and quantify the remaining absolute flux uncertainty. Corrections based on these two variables reduce the scatter in repeated observations from 12%-25% down to 10%-17%. We find no evidence for intrinsic source variability in G300.968+01.145. For certain applications, the corrections described herein will be integral for improving the absolute flux calibration of MALT90 maps and other observations using the Mopra telescope at 90 GHz.

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