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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: Astron Astrophys. 2021 Jan 5;645:A37. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038701

Table 6. Beam parameters of Yebes 40 m radio telescope.

Main beam 1st error beam 2nd error beam 3rd error beam
Origin Diffraction pattern Large-scale deformations Panel frame misalignments Panel deformations
Correlation length L 1 = 4.1±0.2 m L 2 = 2.3±0.1 m L 3 = 0.75±0.03 m
RMS-value σ 1 = 253±20 μm σ 2 = 245±19 μm σ 3 = 164±12 μm
9.2mm / 32.4GHz
FWHM (θi) (″) 56 ± 5 525 ± 52 850 ± 85 2850 ± 285
Power amplitude (a i) 1 0.0022 ± 0.0006 0.00040 ± 0.00012 (1.8 ± 0.6) × 10-5
Relative Power(a) (P i) 0.75 0.14 0.07 0.04
8.1mm / 36.9GHz
FWHM (θi) (″) 49 ± 5 440 ± 44 765 ± 76 2450 ± 245
Power amplitude (a i) 1 0.0024 ± 0.0007 0.0005 ± 0.0002 (2.5 ± 0.8) × 10-5
Relative Power(a) (P i) 0.73 0.14 0.09 0.04
6.8mm / 43.8GHz
FWHM (θ i) (″) 42 ± 4 340 ± 34 620 ± 62 1900 ± 190
Power amplitude (a i) 1 0.0022 ± 0.0007 0.0012 ± 0.0004 (4 ± 1) × 10-5
Relative Power(a) (P i) 0.68 0.10 0.17 0.05
4.0mm / 74.7GHz
FWHM (θi) (″) 22 ± 2 220 ± 22 380 ± 38 1150 ± 115
Power amplitude (a i) 1 0.006 ± 0.002 0.0022 ± 0.0007 (1.2 ± 0.4) × 10-4
Relative Power(a) (P i) 0.38 0.21 0.26 0.13
3.6mm / 83.9GHz
FWHM (θi) (″) 18 ± 2 185 ± 18 355 ± 36 1050 ± 105
Power amplitude (a i) 1 0.008 ± 0.002 0.0025 ± 0.0007 (1.9 ± 0.6) × 10-4
Relative Power(a) (P i) 0.29 0.24 0.27 0.18

Notes.

(a)

The integrated relative power (P i) of each beam is estimated as Pi=aiθi2/i=0,3aiθi2, see Sect. 6 of Greve et al. (1998).