• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.15
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• pp.10.2-10.2
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• 1990

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.345-354
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• 2009

A stepped septum polarizer has been designed and fabricated for the 43 GHz band KVN receiver system. The dual-circular polarizer converts left and right hand circularly polarized signals into linear polarizations in two separated rectangular waveguides. Measurements show that the performance of the designed septum polarizer covering 42-48 GHz frequency band is adequate to meet the requirement of KVN receivers. Especially, a polarizer for the KVN receiver of 85-95 GHz frequency band can be fabricated by scaling the dimensions of the septum polarizer developed in this paper.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.55-61
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• 2017

In radio astronomy, high-capacity HDDs are being used to save huge amounts of HDDs in order to record the observational data. For VLBI observations, observational speeds increase and huge amounts of observational data must be stored as they expand to broadband. As the HDD is frequently used, the number of failures occurred, and then it takes a lot of time to recover it. In addition, if a failed HDD is continuously used, observational data loss occurs. And it costs a lot of money to buy a new HDD. In this study, we developed the integrity verification system of the Serial ATA HDD using FirmOS. The FirmOS is an OS that has been developed to function exclusively for specific purposes on a system having a general server board and CPU. The developed system performs the process of writing and reading specific patterns of data in a physical area of the SATA HDD based on a FirmOS. In addition, we introduced a method to investigate the integrity of HDD integrity by comparing it with the stored pattern data from the HDD controller. Using the developed system, it was easy to determine whether the disk pack used in VLBI observations has error or not, and it is very useful to improve the observation efficiency. This paper introduces the detail for the design, configuration, testing, etc. of the SATA HDD integrity verification system developed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.531-534
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• 2005

한국천문연구원에서는 한국우주전파관측망(Korean VLBI Network: KVN)을 위한 전파영상합성기(상관기) 개발을 진행하고 있다. 전파관측 VLBI 시스템 중 상관기(Correlater) 시스템의 한 구성요소로서 데이터 입력 부분에 각 관측 사이트의 데이터를 사전 처리하는 Station Unit(SU)이 있다. VLBI 시스템에서, 디지털화된 데이터의 다중채널은 테이프 또는 하드디스크에 다중트랙 형태로 인코딩된다. 이 SU의 주요기능은 다중트랙으로부터 인코딩된 데이터를 디코딩하고, 마치 기록되지 않은 것과 같이 채널기반의 샘플 스트림으로 이 데이터를 복원하는 것이다. 이 기능을 원활하게 수행하기 위해서, SU는 논리적으로 재생기 시스템과 함께 시스템이 통합될 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 전파 천문 VLBI 시스템 중 SU의 기능과 구조에 대해 고찰하고자 한다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.81-81
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• 2003

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.23.1-23
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• 1998

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• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.32.2-32.2
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• 2008

A major solar radio burst can disturb many kinds of radio instruments, including cellular phone, GPS, and radar. Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) is developing Korean Solar Radio Burst Locator (KSRBL) in collaboration with New Jersey Institute of Technology. KSRBL is a single dish radio spectrograph, which records the spectra of microwave (0.5 - 18 GHz) bursts with 1 MHz spectral resolution and 1 s time cadence, and locates their positions on the solar disk within 2 arcmin. Hardware manufacturing is almost completed including 4-channel digitizer/FPGA. The system is currently installed at Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), and test of the operation is in progress. It will be installed at KASI in 2009. We report current status and test results of KSRBL.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.16
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• pp.6.2-6.2
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• 1991

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.33.1-33.1
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• 2012

We investigate the disk-jet connection of Young Radio Galaxies (YRGs) by comparing emission-line properties with radio luminosity and jet size. By combining new optical spectra for 21 objects with SDSS archival data for 15 objects, we selected a sample of 36 low-redshift YRGs at z < 0.4. We find that YRGs are classified in high- and low-excitation galaxies based on the relative strength of high-to-low excitation line strengths, suggesting that there are two populations in YRGs as similarly found in large radio galaxies, i.e., FRIs and FRIIs. High-excitation galaxies (HEGs) have higher emission line luminosities than low-excitation galaxies (LEGs) at fixed black hole mass and radio luminosity, suggesting that the Eddington ratio is higher in HEGs than in LEGs and that for given radio activity HEGs have higher accretion activity than LEGs. The difference between HEGs and LEGs is probably due to either mass accretion rate or radiative efficiency.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.129-133
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• 2004

In the past, radio astronomers have sought isolation from man-made signals by placing their telescopes in remote locations. These measures may no longer safeguard scientific observations, since NGSO satellite systems, particularly low-Earth orbit (LEO) systems, are usually designed to provide global or wide regional coverage. Further, radio astronomers have historically made their observations in the frequency bands allocated for their use by the member countries of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The science of radio astronomy could be adversely impacted by the deployment of large constellations of new non-geostationary orbiting (NGSO) satellites for telecommunications, navigation and Earth observation, and the proliferation of new, high-power broadcasting and telecommunication satellites in geostationary (GSO) orbits. Radio telescopes are extremely sensitive, and, in certain situations, signals from satellites can overwhelm the signals from astronomical sources. This paper describes the problem in detail and identifies ways to mitigate it without adversely affecting the continued vigorous growth of commercial space-based telecommunications.