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Owens Valley Radio Observatory - 10 Meter Telescope

Open House at OVRO - 08 June 2019

 

The repurposed CARMA 10 meter telescope [in the foreground] has been refitted with a new front end to be used in the detection of [red-shifted] carbon monoxide molecules.

 

"The objective of this program is to commission a polarization-sensitive radio receiver and build a digital backend for the CO Mapping Array Pathfinder (COMAP) experiment, as well as observe for two years using this equipment on a 10m-diameter radio telescope. The COMAP program is part of a much larger effort by the astronomical community to understand the origin and evolution of the universe and the formation of stars and galaxies." - www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1517288

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Taken on June 8, 2019