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SITES:
Charlottesville, Virginia
Green Bank, West Virginia
Socorro, New Mexico
Santiago, Chile
TELESCOPES:
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
Green Bank Interferometer
Green Bank 140-ft Telescope
Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT)
Very Large Array (VLA)
Expanded VLA (EVLA) Project
Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
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ALMA conceptual images courtesy ofthe
European Southern Observatory
The telescopes of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory are
designed to collect radio waves in an antenna, to distribute this
information through a highly sensitive receiver and correlator and
then to analyze the output with sophisticated software
designed specifically for this purpose.
The newest telescope project of the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory is the Atacama
Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). This endeavor includes
the collaboration of observatories from around the world in the
manufacturing of over 50 high-precision 12-meter antennas.
ALMA will be the forefront instrument for studying the cool universe -
the relic radiation of the Big Bang, and the molecular gas and dust that constitute
the very building blocks of stars, planetary systems, galaxies, and life itself.
The ALMA site is located at an elevation of 16,400 feet in Llano de Chajnantor,
Chile.
The
Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West
Virginia is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
The GBT is described as a 100-meter telescope, but the actual dimensions of
the surface are 100 by 110 meters. The overall structure of the GBT is a
wheel-and-track design that allows the telescope to view the entire sky
above 5 degrees elevation. The track, 64 m (210 ft) in diameter, is level to
within a few thousandths of an inch in order to provide precise pointing of the
structure while bearing 7300 metric tons (16,000,000 pounds) of moving weight.
The
140 Foot (43-m) Telescope.in Green Bank was completed in the Spring of
1965 and had its last regular observing run during the
second quarter of 1999. It is being recommissioned for a
collaboration by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Lincoln Laboratory and the NRAO to study turbulent properties of the
Earth's ionosphere.
The Very
Large Array (VLA), one of the world's premier astronomical observatories,
consists of 27 25-meter radio antennas each weighing approximately 200
tons, in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San
Agustin 60 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico.
The data from the antennas are combined electronically to give the
resolution of an antenna 36 km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a
single dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.
The VLA was made famous in the movie
Contact starring Jodie Foster.
The Expanded VLA
Project will provide a radio telescope of unprecedented sensitivity,
resolution, and
imaging capability by modernizing and extending the existing Very Large Array.
The Very
Long Baseline Array (VLBA), remotely controlled from the
Array Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico, is comprised of
ten 25-meter radio telescopes each weighing 240 tons, which work
together as the world's largest,
dedicated full-time astronomical instrument.
From Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands,
the VLBA spans more than 5,000 miles, providing astronomers with the sharpest vision
of any telescope on Earth or in space. Dedicated in 1993, the VLBA has an ability to see
fine detail equivalent to being able to stand in New York and read a newspaper in
Los Angeles.
The
VLA-Pie Town Link connects the VLBA Pie Town
antenna and the VLA in real time via an optical fiber to
increase the resolving power of the VLA's A configuration.
The 12-meter millimeter-wave telescope on Kitt Peak, 50 miles west southwest of
Tucson, Arizona, was closed as an
NRAO facility in 2000 and is currently operated by Steward Observatory;
more details are available
on their web site.
Astronomical data from NRAO telescopes are archived and
cataloged in a Data Archive
from which they are accessible by
direct ftp downloads. The archive currently contains raw data from
the GBT, VLA and the VLBA and catalog tables containing
the meta-data from each observation. The archive currently resides
at the NRAO Array Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico.
The data archive also contains calibrated data from NRAO-supported
surveys, including:.

The Very Large Array B
Array Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) is
designed to survey 10,000 square degrees of the north galactic
cap.
The Very
Large Array D Array NVSS Survey is a radio continuum survey
covering the sky north of -40 degrees declination.

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[H2] NRAO News Archive
[H3] 2005
January 14, 2005 - GBT
Successfully
Detects Huygens in Titan's Atmosphere
January 12, 2005 - Star Cluster Buzzing With
Pulsars
January 12, 2005 - Blazar Jets Push
Closer to Cosmic Speed Limit
January 12, 2005 - Dwarf Galaxy Gives Giant Surprise
January 10, 2005 - VLA Detects Unexplained Radio Emission From Three Brown Dwarfs
January 5, 2005 - VLA Helps Study the Most Powerful Eruption Yet Seen
[H3] 2004
December 22, 2004 - Radio Telescopes Will Add to Cassini-Huygens Discoveries
December 1, 2004 - A Finding Aid to Grote Reber Papers and Some Related Images Are Now Available
November 22, 2004 - 2004 Jansky Lectures and Symposia Conclude
November 09, 2004 - VLA Study Offers Clue
to Galaxy Formation
November 02, 2004 - Ethan J. Schreier
Assumes Presidency of Associated Universities, Inc.
October 26, 2004 - Gigantic Cosmic Corkscrew Reveals New Details about
Mysterious Microquasar
October 20, 2004 - Sky Survey Provides New Radio View of Universe
October 1, 2004 - Applications for the NRAO Summer Student Research
Assistantships Program now being
accepted
September 23, 2004 -
VLA's "Mouse" undergoes further study
September 20, 2004 - Cold
Sugar in Space Provides Clue to the Molecular Origin of Life
August 18, 2004 - Ronald Ekers to Give
39th Jansky Lecture
August 13, 2004 -
VLA Aids in the Investigation of
Merging Intergalactic Clouds by Providing Evidence of
Gas
Stripping of In-Falling Galaxies
August 5, 2004 -
Observations
With the VLA Confirm the Existence of a New Class of Gamma-Ray Bursts
August 4, 2004 - Applications for the 2005
Jansky Fellowships are now being accepted.
July 27, 2004 -
Stellar Pair Shot Out from Its Birthplace:
Astronomers Link Moving Microquasar to Star Cluster
June 21, 2004 -
Scientists Discover Two New Interstellar Molecules:
Point to Probable Pathways for Chemical Evolution in Space
June 18, 2004 - The
VLBA Helps Astronomers Pinpoint a Massive
Black Hole in the Early Universe
June 10, 2004 -
Radio Telescopes Reveal Youngest Stellar Corpse
June 3, 2004 - Gas Clouds in
Whirlpool Galaxy Yield Important Clues Supporting Theory on Spiral
Arms
June 2, 2004 - Starburst-Driven Winds May Have Created Giant
"Lobe" in Galactic Center
June 1, 2004 - Origin of
Enigmatic Galactic-center Filaments Revealed
May 3, 2004 - Ethan J.
Schreier Named President of Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI News)
April 1, 2004 - Radio Astronomers Lift "Fog" on Milky Way's Dark Heart:
Black Hole Fits Inside Earth's Orbit
March 22, 2004 - Jansky
Lecture: Call for Nominations
January 12, 2004: ALMA
Management Advisory Committee to Meet in Charlottesville March 11 -
12
[H3] 2003
December 10:
Astronomers Discover Most Distant Galaxy Showing Key Evidence For Furious Star
Formation
November 12:
Despite Appearances, Cosmic Explosions Have Common Origin, Astronomers Discover
November 6:
ALMA Partners Break Ground on World's Largest Millimeter Wavelength
Telescope
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