{"paper":{"title":"Characterization of the MALT90 Survey and the Mopra Telescope at 90 GHz","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.GA"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.IM","authors_text":"Ana Duarte-Cabral, Andrew J. Walsh, Balt Indermuehle, Chris Claysmith, Christopher H. Jordan, Fabrice Herpin, James M. Jackson, James S. Urquhart, Jill M. Rathborne, Jo\\~ao Alves, Jonathan B. Foster, Joshua L. Mascoop, J. Scott Whitaker, Kate J. Brooks, Maria R. Cunningham, Marion Wienen, Maxim A. Voronkov, Patricio Sanhueza, Peter J. Barnes, Sadia Hoq, Shari L. Breen, Steven N. Longmore, Timea Csengeri, Tracey Hill, Tui R. Britton, Yanett Contreras","submitted_at":"2013-06-03T20:00:00Z","abstract_excerpt":"We characterize the Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz (MALT90) Survey and the Mopra telescope at 90 GHz. We combine repeated position-switched observations of the source G300.968+01.145 with a map of the same source in order to estimate the pointing reliability of the position-switched observations and, by extension, the MALT90 survey; we estimate our pointing uncertainty to be 8 arcseconds. We model the two strongest sources of systematic gain variability as functions of elevation and time-of-day and quantify the remaining absolute flux uncertainty. Corrections based on these two variab"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1306.0560","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}