North America
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- Algonquin Radio Telescope
- Dominion Radio Astrophysical Solar Monitor
- DRAO 26 m Telescope
- Synthesis Telescope
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- Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT)
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- Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA, 10 antennas accross the U.S.)
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- ARO 12 m Radio Telescope
- Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope (SMT)
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- Allen Telescope Array
- C-BASS North
- Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA)
- Goldstone Radio Telescope
- Leuschner 4.5 m Telescope
- OVRO 40 m Telescope
- SSRI International 45.7 m Telescope
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- Paul Plishner Radio Astronomy and Space Sciences Center 18 m Telescope
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- Array for Microwave Background Anistropy (AMiBA)
- Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
- Submillimeter Array (SMA)
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- Morehead State University 21 m Telescope
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- Haystack Observatory 18 m Telescope
- Haystack Observatory 37 m Telescope
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- Long Wavelength Array (LWA)
- Very Large Array (VLA)
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- Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) 23 m dishes
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- Very Small Array (VSA)
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- Arecibo 305 m Telescope
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- Green Bank 140 ft Telescope
- Green Bank Interferometer (GBI)
- Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT)
Green Bank Telescope (GBT)
Full name: Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
Observatory: Green Bank Observatory (formerly a part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Location: Green Bank, WV, USA |
Latitude: 38.433 |
Longitude: -79.840
First light: August 22, 2000
Telescope style: Single-dish, fully-steerable, parabolic off-axis reflector
Wavelength: 3 mm to 1 m | Frequency: 290 MHz to 100 GHz
Website: https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/gbt
Scoping out radio astronomy:
The Largest Fully-Steerable Radio Telescope in the World: The GBT
Photograph by Olivia Harper Wilkins
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Select news articles about the GBT:
- Astronomy Now — Green Bank Observatory: the making of an American astronomy icon — 10 October 2016
- Rolling Stone — The $100 million hunt for alien life — 7 April 2016
- WVU Newswise — WVU astronomer helps explain mysteries of 'Fast Radio Burst' discovered with the Green Bank Telescope — 1 December 2015
- National Geographic — Life in the Quiet Zone: West Virginia Town Avoids Electronics for Science — 11 October 2014
- NPR — Enter the quiet zone: Where cell service, Wi-Fi are banned — 8 October 2013
- Sky & Telescope — Green Bank Telescope's $1,000,000 boost — 27 August 2013
- NBC — No cellphone, no Wi-Fi: Living in America's quietest place — 15 May 2013
- Baltimore Sun — Green Bank telescope to search sky — 26 March 2000
- New York Times — Replacing a Telescope 1 January 1991
Very Large Array (VLA)
Full name: Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
Observatory: National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
Location: Socorro County, NM, USA |
Latitude: 34.078749 |
Longitude: -107.617728
First light: February 18, 1976
Telescope style: Interferometer (27 active antennas)
Wavelength: 0.6 cm to 410 cm |
Frequency: 73 MHz to 50 GHz
Photograph by Olivia Harper Wilkins
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Select news articles about the VLA:
- NRAO Press Release — Radio Observations Point to Likely Explanation for Neutron-Star Merger Phenomena — 20 December 2017
- NRAO Press Release — Radio "Eyes" Unlocking Secrets of Neutron-Star Collision — 16 October 2017
- NRAO Press Release — VLA Begins Huge Project of Cosmic Discovery — 18 September 2017
- NRAO Press Release — VLA Reveals Distant Galaxy's Magnetic Field — 28 August 2017