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An ultra-wide bandwidth (704 to 4 032 MHz) receiver for the Parkes radio telescope
- George Hobbs, Richard N. Manchester, Alex Dunning, Andrew Jameson, Paul Roberts, Daniel George, J. A. Green, John Tuthill, Lawrence Toomey, Jane F. Kaczmarek, Stacy Mader, Malte Marquarding, Azeem Ahmed, Shaun W. Amy, Matthew Bailes, Ron Beresford, N. D. R. Bhat, Douglas C.-J. Bock, Michael Bourne, Mark Bowen, Michael Brothers, Andrew D. Cameron, Ettore Carretti, Nick Carter, Santy Castillo, Raji Chekkala, Wan Cheng, Yoon Chung, Daniel A. Craig, Shi Dai, Joanne Dawson, James Dempsey, Paul Doherty, Bin Dong, Philip Edwards, Tuohutinuer Ergesh, Xuyang Gao, JinLin Han, Douglas Hayman, Balthasar Indermuehle, Kanapathippillai Jeganathan, Simon Johnston, Henry Kanoniuk, Michael Kesteven, Michael Kramer, Mark Leach, Vince Mcintyre, Vanessa Moss, Stefan Osłowski, Chris Phillips, Nathan Pope, Brett Preisig, Daniel Price, Ken Reeves, Les Reilly, John Reynolds, Tim Robishaw, Peter Roush, Tim Ruckley, Elaine Sadler, John Sarkissian, Sean Severs, Ryan Shannon, Ken Smart, Malcolm Smith, Stephanie Smith, Charlotte Sobey, Lister Staveley-Smith, Anastasios Tzioumis, Willem van Straten, Nina Wang, Linqing Wen, Matthew Whiting
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 37 / 2020
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- 08 April 2020, e012
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We describe an ultra-wide-bandwidth, low-frequency receiver recently installed on the Parkes radio telescope. The receiver system provides continuous frequency coverage from 704 to 4032 MHz. For much of the band ( ${\sim}60\%$ ), the system temperature is approximately 22 K and the receiver system remains in a linear regime even in the presence of strong mobile phone transmissions. We discuss the scientific and technical aspects of the new receiver, including its astronomical objectives, as well as the feed, receiver, digitiser, and signal processor design. We describe the pipeline routines that form the archive-ready data products and how those data files can be accessed from the archives. The system performance is quantified, including the system noise and linearity, beam shape, antenna efficiency, polarisation calibration, and timing stability.
5 - Bing Crosby: Rock 'n' Roll Godfather
- Edited by Ruth Prigozy, Hofstra University, New York, Walter Raubicheck, Pace University, New York
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- Going My Way
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- Boydell & Brewer
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- 11 March 2023
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- 01 November 2007, pp 67-78
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Summary
The author of a recent exhaustive biography of Bing Crosby, Gary Giddins, laments that Crosby's imprint has badly faded in recent years. As one participant in a 2002 Crosby conference at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, commented: “The image of Frank Sinatra is that of a stylish man standing in the spotlight, in front of a microphone, but the image of Bing Crosby is a grandfatherly man wearing a floppy hat with a golf club on his shoulder.” With the observation that, among other astonishing achievements, Crosby recorded more than four hundred hit songs over a period of thirty years, Giddins asks: “Could a man who spoke so deeply to so many for so long have nothing to say to us now?” Crosby's true standing as an innovative artist, “the epitome of cool,” has been diminished, in Giddins’ view:
If children of the sixties knew his work at all, it was from his perennial hit record of “White Christmas,” TV reruns of his “Road” pictures with Bob Hope, and his duet with David Bowie on “Little Drummer Boy.” Bing's numbers—and the aesthetic they represented— were shaded by those of rock. His art was now as remote from demotic tastes as classical music or jazz.
But while Giddins is right that Crosby's star has unquestionably dimmed, the preceding comment also points to the seeds of influence that Der Bingle indeed planted with baby-boomers. Crosby's influence on his grandchildren's generation— the rock ‘n’ roll generation—can be seen in a 1993 documentary hosted by comedian Dennis Miller, “Bing! His Legendary Years, 1931–1957,” in which Miller, the “ranting” star of “Saturday Night Live,” HBO specials, and “Monday Night Football,” proclaims his admiration for Crosby. “Nowadays, people may notuse the words ‘Bing Crosby’ and ‘hip’ in the same sentence, but the fact is, I think he embodied the word,” Miller said. Miller described his mother dragging him out of a movie theater after watching one of the Bing Crosby-Bob Hope “Road” movies over and over.