Date of Award

6-2026

Document Type

Thesis

Publisher

Santa Clara : Santa Clara University, 2026

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Kurt Schab

Abstract

Santa Clara Radio Astronomy Project (SCRAP) V aims to develop an entirely operational, real-time platform software for an affordable radio telescope that can operate autonomously. This thesis describes the design and implementation process of the fifth generation project through concentrating on the following three key areas: the creation of the live data acquisition and visualization dashboard, thorough verification of the hardware chain received by us, and outdoor system protection from weather factors. The live data dashboard that was created in the MATLAB App Designer completely solved the architecture issues faced with its predecessor being the Python version of the system, which could only work during a maximum of four hours due to some technical limitations, while the new one had no limitations at all and worked for almost a week running smoothly all along. The detection of the broadband solar radio emissions and the verification of the galactic hydrogen line emission at 1420.4 MHz with Doppler shifting, characteristic of the spinning of the Milky Way, were successfully achieved.

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