Long Wavelength Array

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.