Large Radio Telescopes for Anomalous Microwave Emission Observations

Table 2

Characteristics of the 3 radio telescopes able to perform continuum observations at 13 GHz and 23 GHz. Sensitivities are taken from the online sensitivity calculators assuming the same observation conditions.

		Parkes	Green Bank Telescope	Sardinia Radio Telescope
13 GHz	Frequency	0.7 GHz–26 GHz	0.1 GHz–116 GHz	0.3 GHz–100 GHz
	Sensitivity	3.7 mJy√𝑠/beam	0.8 mJy√𝑠/beam	0.6 mJy√𝑠/beam
	𝑇sys	150 K	28 K	29 K
	Polarization capability	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Angular resolution	1.9 arc min	0.95 arc min	1.5 arc min
23 GHz	Sensitivity	3.2 mJy√𝑠/beam	1.7 mJy√𝑠/beam	2.0 mJy√𝑠/beam
	𝑇sys	95 K	51 K	81 K
	Polarization capability	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Angular resolution	1.1 arc min	0.54 arc min	0.9 arc min