We present briefly the LLAMA sub-mm radiotelescope, a joint project of Argentina and Brazil, being mounted in the Andes, Argentina, at 4800 m altitude. Here we focus on the activities that are going on mostly under the responsibility of Brazil, like the high frequency receivers, parts of the back-end and electronics, the optical system of the telescope to bring the radiation to the receivers, the equipment needed for the integration and verification phase (optical telescope and holography) and the computation system.The main scientific applications that are planned are dscribed. We also report on a joint program with BRICS countries approved in 2019, which will involve the use of LLAMA for testing high-frequency receivers.
This work describes the development of a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) low-noise amplifier (LNA) based on a 40 GHz PHEMT (pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor) GaAs technology. The circuit operates from 16 to 25 GHz band, with gain greater than 14 dB and noise figure lower than 3 dB. The performance of the MMIC amplifier mounted in a commercial ceramic package is also presented. Index Terms -MMIC, lownoise amplifier, wideband microwave circuits, PHEMT microwave circuit, microwave package.
IVIA is a joint initiative of at least 8 Latin-American countries plus Portugal and Spain to make good use of large telecommunications antennas that are out of service in these countries, because most international communications are now using submarine cables. The first step will be to refurbish the antennas and then to start doing single dish observations of radiosources. In a second step the antennas will be equipped with VLBI (Very Long Base Interferometry) equipment, to establish a VLBI network. This project will be able to effectively promote scientific integration in Ibero-America. The work is starting in several countries; here we present several scientific cases for the use of the antennas, and we report on the first Brasilian activities.
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