GEM - The Galactic Emission Mapping Project

GEM Operations on Teide

Thyrso Villela, Max Tegmark, & George Smoot Camilo Tello, Thyrso Villela, & George Smoot

Camilo Tello & George Smoot removing dish secondary

Camilo Tello & George Smoot removing dish secondary

GEM dish in vertical store position. Guy wires are visible. On the left is one radiometer of the Tenerife CMB anisotropy experiment on the right one can see some of the many telescopes on the peak.

Camilo Tello, Thyrso Villela, & George Smoot holder for additional pictures.

four people George Smoot, Camilo Tello, Thyrso Villela, & Roger Hoyland working on the dish 5 GHz system

four people Camilo Tello, Thyrso Villela, & George Smoot working on the dish 5 GHz system

• Inspecting 1 the GEM dish
• Inspecting 2 the GEM dish
• Inspecting 3 the GEM dish
• Inspecting 4 the GEM dish and removing last bolts for dismounting 5 GHz receiver (6 October 1997).
• Inspecting 5 the GEM dish just after having removed the 5 GHz receiver and feeds.

• View 0 on dish and site
• View 1 on dish and site
• View 2 on dish and site
• View 3 on dish and site
• View 4 on dish and site
• View 5 on dish and site
• View 6 on dish and site

Intermediate data from Tenerife:

• Time Plot of 2.3 GHz signal for a 30-degree radius circle centered on the Galactic Bulge.
• Time Plot of 2.3 GHz signal showing the noise source (high spikes), the moon (peaks with dotted arrows), RF interference and the Galactic emission (hump repeated every rotation).
• Time Plot of 2.3 GHz signal for a 30-degree radius circle centered on the Galactic anticenter.
• Time Plot of 2.3 GHz signal for a 30-degree radius circle centered on the Galactic coordinates l = 196 and b = 36.
• Time Plot of 2.3 GHz signal for a 30-degree radius circle centered on the north Galactic Pole. Data taken on 14th and 15th of October 1997.

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