Allen Telescope Array (ATA)
Constructed at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, 290 miles northeast of San Francisco, California.
- Fact 1
- Array of a "Large Number of Small Dishes" (LNSD)
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- Simultaneous surveys of conventional radio astronomy projects and Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) observations at centimeter wavelengths
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- Used for radio astronomy observations of our galaxy and other galaxies, gamma ray bursts and transient radio sources, and SETI.
Joint project of the SETI Institute and the Radio Astronomy Lab of the University of California Berkeley.
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- Will grow to 350 dishes
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- Collecting area equivalent to a single dish 114 meters in diameter and the angular resolution of a dish 700 meters across
- Website
- ATA's homepage