(large radio telescope array under construction in Europe)
The Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA)
is an interferometer array of radio telescopes
in the French AlpsPlateau de Bure at an altitude
of 2550 meters, operated by the Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique (IRAM).
It consists of twelve 15-meter dishes
with a 1.7-km maximum baseline and it is the most
sensitive millimeter telescope north of the equator.
NOEMA is an upgrade to the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI), which consisted
of six of the dishes. The upgrade began in 2014
adding a seventh dish, completing with the twelfth in 2022.