An array of thirty 45-meter dish antennas spread across rural Maharashtra, India, built by India's National Centre for Radio Astrophysics and operating at low radio frequencies used to study distant galaxies, pulsars and the early universe. It has been among the world's most powerful low-frequency radio telescopes since its completion in the 1990s.
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Observatory TypeArray of steerable parabolic radio telescopes 2 LocationNear Narayangaon, Pune, India 2 MeasuresRadio waves at metre wavelengths 2 Operating PrincipleInterferometric array with baselines of up to 25 kilometres 2 Classification
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2. Wikipedia: Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
Lead section, opening description
an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes
Lead section, location sentence
located near Narayangaon, Pune in India
Lead section, wavelength description
observing at metre wavelengths
Lead section, interferometry description
It is an interferometric array with baselines of up to 25 kilometres
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, Wikipedia - lead section, observing band (radio)
The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), located near Narayangaon, Pune in India, is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths.
Operated By: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Lead paragraph
It is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA)
In Group: Radio and Millimetre Interferometer Arrays, Lead sentence
The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), located near Narayangaon, Pune in India, is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths.
Operated By: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Article text: operator
It is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
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