Australia Telescope Compact Array
(ATCA)
(radio telescope in eastern Australia)
The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA)
is a radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia operated
by the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
at the Paul Wild Observatory, in operation since 1988.
It consists of six 22-meter dishes with baselines up to 6 km,
with receivers for frequencies ranging from 1.1 GHz to 105 GHz,
which should allow angular resolutions down to about 0.1 arcsecond
(i.e., with ideal configuration, observation direction, and wavelength).
They are also used for very-long-baseline interferometry with other Australian radio telescopes,
as the Long Baseline Array (LBA). The LBA and the ATCA were the two components
of a 1980s project called the Australia Telescope (AT).
(radio,interferometer,telescope,CSIRO,array,ground,Australia)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Telescope_Compact_Array
http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/
https://csiropedia.csiro.au/australia-telescope-compact-array/
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/A/ATCA
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995PASA...12..227B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985PASA....6..101F/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986PASA....6..290W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987JBAA...98....1H/abstract
WaveL | Freq | Photon Energy | | |
2.9mm | 105GHz | 434μeV | begin | Australia Telescope Compact Array |
273mm | 1.1GHz | 4.6μeV | end | Australia Telescope Compact Array |
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Prefix | Example | | |
ATCA | ATCA J0536.9-6913 | | |
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Referenced by pages:
Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS)
CRATES
Long Baseline Array (LBA)
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