Digital Instrumentation for the Radio Astronomy Community

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dc.creatorParsons, Aaron
dc.creatorWerthimer, Dan
dc.creatorBacker, Donald
dc.creatorBastian, Tim
dc.creatorBower, Geoffrey
dc.creatorBrisken, Walter
dc.creatorChen, Henry
dc.creatorDeller, Adam
dc.creatorFiliba, Terry
dc.creatorGary, Dale
dc.creatorGreenhill, Lincoln
dc.creatorHawkins, David
dc.creatorJones, Glenn
dc.creatorLangston, Glen
dc.creatorLazio, Joseph
dc.creatorvan Leeuwen, Joeri
dc.creatorMitchell, Daniel
dc.creatorManley, Jason
dc.creatorSiemion, Andrew
dc.creatorSo, Hayden Kwok-Hay
dc.creatorWhitney, Alan
dc.creatorWoody, Dave
dc.creatorWright, Melvyn
dc.creatorZarb-Adami, Kristian
dc.date2009-04-07
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:01:20Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:01:20Z
dc.descriptionTime-to-science is an important figure of merit for digital instrumentation serving the astronomical community. A digital signal processing (DSP) community is forming that uses shared hardware development, signal processing libraries, and instrument architectures to reduce development time of digital instrumentation and to improve time-to-science for a wide variety of projects. We suggest prioritizing technological development supporting the needs of this nascent DSP community. After outlining several instrument classes that are relying on digital instrumentation development to achieve new science objectives, we identify key areas where technologies pertaining to interoperability and processing flexibility will reduce the time, risk, and cost of developing the digital instrumentation for radio astronomy. These areas represent focus points where support of general-purpose, open-source development for a DSP community should be prioritized in the next decade. Contributors to such technological development may be centers of support for this DSP community, science groups that contribute general-purpose DSP solutions as part of their own instrumentation needs, or engineering groups engaging in research that may be applied to next-generation DSP instrumentation.
dc.description11 pages, 4 figures, Astro2010 Decadal Survey White Paper in TEC: Technology Development
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1181
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1181
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/226116
dc.subjectInstrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
dc.titleDigital Instrumentation for the Radio Astronomy Community
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