The Very Large Array radio interferometer located near Socorro, NM, USA, consists of 27 parabolic radio receiver dishes, rail mounted in a Y-pattern with arms about 13 miles (21 kilometres) long. Each dish is 82 feet (25 meters) in diameter, to be aimed and moved along its rail from a central control room. Using interferometric principles, a computer integrates the individual signals recorded by each dish into one signal that appears to have been recorded by a single dish with a diameter of 17 miles (27 kilometers). The VLA is operated by the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory and began operation in 1980.
Date:
1980
Occupation:
Radio array
Location:
Socorro, NM, USA
1980
Occupation:
Radio array
Location:
Socorro, NM, USA
Additional Information:
- Very Large Array Radio Telescopes – New Mexico Tourism
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Very Large Array. The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory located in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, ~50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro. - Visiting the Very Large Array – National Radio Astronomy …
The Very Large Array Radio Telescope facility is a two-hour drive from Albuquerque, 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. The Visitor Center features an … - Very Large Array | telescope, New Mexico, United States …
Very Large Array (VLA), radio telescope system situated on the plains of San Agustin near Socorro, New Mexico, U.S. The VLA went into operation in 1980 and … - Very Large Array (New Mexico) – 2020 All You Need to Know …
We have visited Telescopes all around Arizona but had never been to a Radio Astronomy Observatory, so we planned a trip to the VLA Observatory near Socorro, …