A millimeter-wavelength radio interferometer high in the French Alps, built by the Institut de radioastronomie millimetrique and expanded over the 2010s from the original Plateau de Bure Interferometer into NOEMA, one of the most sensitive millimeter arrays in the Northern Hemisphere. It observes cold gas and dust in star-forming regions and distant galaxies.
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Observatory TypeMillimeter-wavelength radio interferometer 2 LocationPlateau de Bure, Hautes-Alpes, France 2 Operating PrincipleInterferometry: antennas point at one source and a correlator combines their signals into images 2 Classification
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Source Northern Extended Millimeter Array (Wikipedia)
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NOEMA is the most powerful millimeter observatory of the Northern Hemisphere, located in the French Alps.
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1. Northern Extended Millimeter Array (Wikipedia)
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the most powerful radio telescope in the Northern Hemisphere operating at millimeter wavelengths
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Plateau de Bure, Montmaur, arrondissement of Gap, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, metropolitan France
Operation
During observations, the NOEMA antennas function as a single stationary telescope, a technique called interferometry.
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the most powerful radio telescope in the Northern Hemisphere operating at millimeter wavelengths
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IRAMOperated By: Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique, About NOEMA
The Northern Extended Millimetre Array is one of IRAM’s two observatories.
In Group: Radio and Millimetre Interferometer Arrays, About NOEMA
It consists of an array of 12 individual 15-meter antennas.
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