Long Wavelength Array
(LWA)
(radio telescope in New Mexico)
The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) is a radio telescope in
New Mexico which began operation in 2015.
It is the work of a collaboration of institutions that includes the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
Plans are to locate additional antennas at multiple sites capable of
aperture synthesis: a goal is 53 sites within or near New Mexico.
The first site (LWA1), which is in operation as a single
telescope, consists of array of 258 dipole antennas located
adjacent to the Very Large Array (VLA).
Note that a similar radio telescope is the
Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA),
essentially a duplicate of the LWA located at Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO)
in California.
(telescope,radio,array,ground,New Mexico)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Wavelength_Array
https://leo.phys.unm.edu/~lwa/index.html
https://leo.phys.unm.edu/~lwa/memos/memo/lwa0173.pdf
https://www.reeve.com/RadioScience/Antennas/ActiveCrossed-Dipole/LWA_Antenna.htm
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012JAI.....150004T/abstract
https://lwa.unm.edu/
WaveL | Freq | Photon Energy | | |
3.5m | 88MHz | 364neV | begin | Long Wavelength Array |
30m | 10MHz | 41neV | end | Long Wavelength Array |
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Referenced by pages:
LEDA
OVRO-LWA
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO)
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