Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Rapid-transient Detector
CHORD is a next-generation radio telescope under construction at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO).
It will be composed of 512 close-packed 6-metre dishes, each equipped with a dual-polarization Ultra-WideBand (UWB).
As co-PI and Telescope Architect, I'm responsible for the overall instrument design, as well as leading
several individual components: the USB frontend feed, the analog chain following it, and the backend spatial correlator.
You can read the early design whitepaper on arXiv. The UWB feed is described in Mackay et al., 2023. The UWB feed is described in Mackay et al., 2023. |