A Canadian federal radio astronomy facility near Penticton, British Columbia, home since the 1960s to a synthesis telescope array used for large-scale surveys of neutral hydrogen gas in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. It is operated by Canada's National Research Council alongside the optical Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria.
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The site houses four radio telescopes: an interferometric radio telescope, a 26-m single-dish antenna, a solar flux monitor, and the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), as well as support engineering laboratories.
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