Sentences with phrase «submillimeter antenna»

There are some ideas on the table, including a reasonably sized spectroscopic telescope, a large submillimeter antenna to supplement ALMA, and maybe an expansion of the VLT interferometer.

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These antennas at the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in Chile will observe the black hole in unprecedented detail as part of the Event Horizon Telescope project.

* The data were obtained by ALMA; the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter - wave Astronomy: a millimeter array consisting of 23 parabola antennas in California; the Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as Submillimeter Telescope as a supplement.

When astronomers aimed the 66 radio antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in Chile at the star HL Tauri, 450 light years away, they saw concentric rings around it — the first such sighting for any star.

Another more recent example of international partnership, involving Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Chile, is the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a radio interferometer telescope consisting of sixty - six antennas sitting at an altitude of 5,000 meters in the north of Chilehe Atacama Desert.

ALMA will consist of 64 12 - meter - diameter dish antennas comprising a single imaging telescope to study the universe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths — the region between radio waves and infrared waves.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been conceived as a radio telescope comprised of sixty - four transportable 12 - meter diameter antennas distributed over an area 14 km in extent.

An ACA (Atacama Compact Array) 12 - m antenna was handed over as the first antenna to the Joint ALMA Observatory, which operates ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array).

The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) astronomical observatory has taken another step forward and upward, as one of its state - of - the - art antennas was carried for the first time to the 5000m plateau of Chajnantor, in the Chilean Andes, on the back of a custom - built giant transporter, on 2009 September 18 (JST).

The ALMA antennas use state - of - the - art technology, and are the most advanced submillimeter - wavelength antennas ever made.

The combined area of all antennas used to collect signals from celestial objects is more than 40 times larger than that available to astronomers using existing submillimeter telescopes.

The final antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) project has just been handed over to the ALMA Observatory.

Figure: Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes.

ALMA, or the Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array, is a system of antennas that sits 16,000 feet above sea level over the Atacama Desert in the Andes Mountains in Chile.

When we were trying this with The Submillimeter Array in Hawaii — which has only eight antennas, each only half the size as the ones at ALMA — we were observing each galaxy for a couple of hours.

Finally, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) proposed the construction of a Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (LMSA), which considered the same amount of antennas as ESO, but with a 10 - meter diameter, and unlike the others, it also planned to receive submillimeterSubmillimeter Array (LMSA), which considered the same amount of antennas as ESO, but with a 10 - meter diameter, and unlike the others, it also planned to receive submillimetersubmillimeter wavelengths.

A powerful new array of radio telescopes is being deployed for the first time this week, as the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile joins a global network of antennas poised to make some of the highest resolution images that astronomers have ever obtained.