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Superconducting Receivers for Space, Balloon, and Ground-Based Sub-Terahertz Radio Telescopes

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We give a review of both our own original scientific results of the development of superconducting receivers for sub-terahertz astronomy and the main leading concepts of the global instrumentation. The analysis of current astronomical problems, the results of microwave astroclimate research, and the development of equipment for sub-terahertz radio astronomy studies justify the need and feasibility of a major infrastructure project in Russia to create a sub-terahertz telescope, as well as to enhance the implementation of the ongoing Millimetron and Suffa projects. The following results are discussed: i) superconducting coherent receivers and broadband subterahertz detectors for space, balloon, and ground-based radio telescopes have been developed and tested; ii) ultrasensitive receiving systems based on tunnel structures such as superconductor—insulator—superconductor (SIS) and superconductor—insulator—normal metal—insulator—superconductor (SINIS) have been created, fabricated, and examined; iii) a receiving array based on SINIS detectors and microwave readout system for such structures has been implemented; iv) methods for manufacturing high-quality tunnel structures Nb/AlOx/Nb and Nb/AlN/NbN based on niobium films with a current density of up to 30 kA/cm2 have been developed. Receivers operated at 200 to 950 GHz and having a noise temperature only a factor of 2 to 5 higher than the quantum limit have been created and tested.

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  1. Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Arkhyz, Russia

    Yu. Yu. Balega & G. V. Yakopov

  2. Astronomical Institute of the Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands

    A. M. Baryshev & K. I. Rudakov

  3. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Acedemy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    G. M. Bubnov, V. F. Vdovin, A. A. Gunbina & I. I. Zinchenko

  4. R. E. Alekseev State Technical University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    G. M. Bubnov, V. F. Vdovin, S. N. Vdovichev & A. A. Gunbina

  5. Astrospace Center of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. F. Vdovin, V. P. Koshelets, A. V. Smirnov & A. V. Khudchenko

  6. V. A. Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    A. A. Gunbina, P. N. Dmitriev, V. P. Koshelets, D. V. Nagirnaya, K. I. Rudakov, M. A. Tarasov, L. V. Filippenko, A. V. Khudchenko, A. M. Chekushkin & R. A. Yusupov

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  10. Physical and Technical Institute of Moscow, Moscow, Russia

    S. A. Lemzyakov

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 63, Nos. 7, pp. 533–556, July 2020.

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Balega, Y.Y., Baryshev, A.M., Bubnov, G.M. et al. Superconducting Receivers for Space, Balloon, and Ground-Based Sub-Terahertz Radio Telescopes. Radiophys Quantum El 63, 479–500 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-021-10073-z

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