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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Welch, Jack
• Fields, Ed
• Forster, James
• Gutierrez-Kraybill, Colby
• Heiles, Carl
• Helfer, Tamara
• Jorgensen, Susanne
• Keating, Garrett
• Lugten, John
• MacMahon, Dave
• Milgrome, Oren
• Backer, Don
• Thornton, Douglas
• Urry, Lynn
• van Leeuwen, Joeri
• Werthimer, Dan
• Williams, Peter H.
• Wright, Melvin
• Tarter, Jill
• Ackermann, Robert
• Atkinson, Shannon
• Backus, Peter
• Blitz, Leo
• Barott, William
• Bradford, Tucker
• Davis, Michael
• DeBoer, Dave
• Dreher, John
• Harp, Gerry
• Jordan, Jane
• Kilsdonk, Tom
• Pierson, Tom
• Randall, Karen
• Bock, Douglas C.-J.
• Ross, John
• Shostak, Seth
• Fleming, Matt
• Cork, Chris
• Vitouchkine, Artyom
• Wadefalk, Niklas
• Weinreb, Sander
• Bower, Geoffrey C.
• Cheng, Calvin
• Croft, Steve
• Dexter, Matt
• Engargiola, Greg

Titel

The Allen Telescope Array: The First Widefield, Panchromatic, Snapshot Radio Camera for Radio Astronomy and SETI

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the IEEE, 2009-08, Vol.97 (8), p.1438-1447

Ort / Verlag

New York: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

IEEE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The first 42 elements of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA-42) are beginning to deliver data at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in northern California. Scientists and engineers are actively exploiting all of the flexibility designed into this innovative instrument for simultaneously conducting surveys of the astrophysical sky and conducting searches for distant technological civilizations. This paper summarizes the design elements of the ATA, the cost savings made possible by the use of commercial off-the-shelf components, and the cost/performance tradeoffs that eventually enabled this first snapshot radio camera. The fundamental scientific program of this new telescope is varied and exciting; some of the first astronomical results will be discussed.