Since we’re on a long shot theme today, let’s play it out. Here are a few Radio Telescopes for Intergalatic Astronomy. Maybe we can learn something…
- Australia Telescope Compact Array – ATNF is located at the Paul Wild Observatory in Narrabri, part of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility, which also includes the ATNF Headquarters at Marsfield, the Parkes Observatory and the Mopra Observatory. The Australia Telescope Compact Array is composed of six antennas.
- Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) – “CSO is a cutting-edge facility for astronomical research and instrumentation development. It consists of a 10.4-meter diameter Leighton radio dish situated in a compact dome near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawai’i.”
- Cambridge Ryle Telescope (RT) – “The Ryle Telescope (RT) has 8 elements, each being an equatorially mounted 13 m Cassegrain aerial. The baseline is (almost) E-W. Four aerials are mounted on a 1.2 km rail track, and the others are fixed at 1.2 km intervals. Baselines between 18 m and 4.8 km are therefore available, in a variety of configurations.”
- Mopra Observatory – “The Mopra 22 meter antenna is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), operated by the CSIRO. It is intended for use in conjunction with other AT antennas (the six 22-m dishes at Narrabri, and the 64-m Parkes dish) to form the Long Baseline Array. Like the Parkes antenna, it is also used for single-dish operation.”
- Parkes Observatory – The Parkes Observatory is operated by the Australia Telescope National Facility, ATNF, a division of CSIRO. The ATNF Parkes Observatory consists of a 64m telescope which is used as an independent instrument, and networked with other Australian and international radio telescopes for VLBI.
- The Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope (CLFST) – “CLFST is an east-west aperture synthesis telescope currently operating at 151 MHz. It consists of 60 tracking yagis on a 4.6 km baseline, giving 776 simultaneous baselines.”
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