Allen Telescope Array
(ATA)
(array of radio telescopes in northern California for SETI)
The Allen Telescope Array is a radio-telescope array of 42
6.1-meter dishes at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO) in northern California,
owned by the SETI Institute (an organization supporting SETI
research, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence).
It has a wide field of view and covers frequencies
0.5-11.2 GHz. In addition to SETI research, it is
suitable for other radio astronomy applications including
21-cm line observations, as well as fast radio burst (FRB) study,
the latter of both SETI and astrophysics interest.
The 42 dishes (ATA-42) went operational in 2007, with some
subsequent receiver upgrades.
Plans from the beginning have been to increase it in stages to 350
dishes (ATA-350).
(telescope,radio,microwave,interferometer,ground,California,array)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Telescope_Array
https://www.seti.org/ata
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009pra..confE...5V/abstract
WaveL | Freq | Photon Energy | | |
27mm | 11.2GHz | 46μeV | begin | Allen Telescope Array |
600mm | 0.5GHz | 2.1μeV | end | Allen Telescope Array |
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Referenced by pages:
Boötes Field
Gregorian telescope
Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO)
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