List of radio telescopes

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This is a list of radio telescopes that are or have been used for radio astronomy. It includes both single dishes and interferometer arrays. They are listed by region, then by name; unnamed telescopes are in reverse size order at the end of the lists.

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1 Africa
2 Asia
3 Australia
4 Europe
5 North America
6 South America
7 Space-based
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

[edit] Africa

Name	Location	Remarks
HartRAO Radio Telescope	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, Johannesburg, South Africa	26m dish.^[1]. Also site for first 15m prototype Telescope for KAT (SKA 1%).^{[citation needed]}
Karoo Array Telescope (KAT)	Carnarvon, South Africa	Twenty 15m Telescopes planned for 2009 as a 1% pathfinder for the Square Kilometre Array.^[2]

[edit] Asia

Name	Location	Remarks
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)	Pune, India	Thirty 45m wire dishes;^[3] largest telescope at meter wavelengths. Operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics.^{[citation needed]}
Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT)	Ooty, India	appproximately 530 m long and 30 m wide operates at 326.5MHz

[edit] Australia

Name	Location	Remarks
Australia Telescope Compact Array	Narrabri	6 dish aperture synthesis array, part of Australia Telescope National Facility.^{[citation needed]}
Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST)	Molonglo (near Canberra, Australia)	Operated by the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. East-west arm of the former Molonglo Cross Telescope, approximately 800 m in length. Operates at 843 MHz.
Mopra Radio Telescope	Mopra Observatory close to Siding Spring Observatory, near Coonabarabran, Australia	22m dish, operated by ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility)
Parkes Radio Telescope	Parkes Observatory, Parkes, Australia	64 m Telescope (2nd largest movable dish in the Southern Hemisphere), part of Australia Telescope National Facility

[edit] Europe

Name	Location	Remarks
Arcminute Microkelvin Imager	Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, UK
Effelsberg	Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg near Bonn, Germany	100 m dish operated by Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
European VLBI Network (EVN)	Distributed across Europe with members located in China, S. Africa and USA	VLBI array operated by the European Consortium for VLBI
Lovell Telescope	Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, UK	76 m dish
LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray)	Netherlands, Germany	Low Frequency Array,
Mark II	Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, UK	25m dish
Mark III	Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, UK	25m dish; now dismantled.
MERLIN (Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network)	UK	Consists of the Cambridge 32 m at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Darnhall, Defford, Tabley (also known as Pickmere) and Knockin. Also includes the Lovell and Mark II telescopes at Jodrell Bank.
Nançay Radio Telescope (NRT)	Nançay, France
Northern Cross	Medicina Radio Observatory, Medicina, Bologna Italy [1]	32000m² Interferometer, cyl-paraboloid steerable over NS., 408 MHz, Beam=3'
Yebes RT 40m	Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, Yebes (Guadalajara), Spain [2]	40m parabolic steerable radiotelescope for mm and cm wavelenghts
Ryle Telescope	Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, UK	Eight 13 m dishes, and is currently used as one part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager.
Toruń RT4 32m	Toruń Centre for Astronomy, Toruń, Poland	RT4 (32 m) parabolic antenna
Toruń RT3 15m	Toruń Centre for Astronomy, Toruń, Poland	RT3 (15 m) antenna.
Ukrainian T-shaped Radio telescope, second modification (UTR-2)	Grakovo, Kharkiv, Ukraine	World's largest radio telescope at decametre wavelengths (max. collective area 150 000 m²).
Very Small Array (VSA)	Observatorio del Teide, Canary Islands, Spain	Array of 14 dishes, with two larger source-subtraction dishes. Controlled remotely from UK.
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT)	Westerbork, Netherlands	Array of radio telescopes [3]
32m	Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center, Irbene, Latvia	32-meter fully steerable parabolic, centimetre-wave range antenna RT-32 http://www.virac.lv/
32m VLBI dish	Medicina Radio Observatory, Medicina, Bologna Italy [4]	32m, fully steerable dish, 1400 MHz...43 GHz
32m VLBI dish	Noto Radio Observatory, Noto, Italy, [5]	32m, fully steerable dish, 300 MHz...86 GHz. It operate as a part of Astronomic and geodetic VLBI network and as single dish.
25m telescope	Onsala Space Observatory, Onsala, Sweden	25 m Telescope
20m telescope	Onsala Space Observatory, Onsala, Sweden	20 m Telescope
16m	Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center, Irbene, Latvia	16-meter diameter antenna RT-16 http://www.virac.lv/
42ft (12.8m) telescope	Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, UK	25m dish; now dismantled.
6.4m teaching telescope	Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, UK	25m dish; now dismantled.

[edit] North America

Name	Location	Remarks
46 metre dish	Algonquin Radio Observatory, Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada	Operated by Natural Resources Canada as a member of the International VLBI Service
Seven-element interferometer	Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
26-m single-dish	Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Solar monitor	Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO)	Amherst, Massachusetts, USA	Operated by UMass Amherst
Green Bank Telescope (GBT)	Green Bank, West Virginia, USA	World's largest fully mobile single-dish radio telescope
12m telescope	Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, USA	Previously operated by the NRAO, this telescope is currently operated by the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.
Two 26m dishes	Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI), Rosman, North Carolina, USA
Submillimeter Array (SMA)	Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, USA	Operated jointly by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Taiwan.
Very Large Array (VLA)	Socorro, New Mexico, USA	Array of 27 dishes. Part of NRAO.
Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)	Socorro, New Mexico USA (operations center)	Array system of radio telescopes located in or offshore from the USA; controlled remotely from the Array Operations Center.
Arecibo Observatory	Arecibo, Puerto Rico	World's largest single-dish radio telescope. Also known as Arecibo radio telescope or NAIC

[edit] South America

Name	Location	Remarks
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)	Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile	54 dishes with 12-m diameter and 12 dishes with 7-m diameter, sensitive to wavelengths between radio and infrared (submillimetre astronomy). Largest and most expensive ground-based telescope in the world until LOFAR is commenced.
Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT)	Sierra Negra, Mexico	A 50 m. telescope in millimetric wavelengths, the largest single dish instrument operating at this frequencies.
Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST)	ESO in La Silla, Chile	15 m telescope based at ESO in La Silla, Chile

[edit] Space-based

Name	Location	Remarks
HALCA (Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy)	Earth orbit with an apogee altitude of 21,400 km and a perigee altitude of 560 km.
Zond 3	Russian spacecraft carrying a radio Telescope

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ HartRAO Radio Telescope Facts. Retrieved on January 23, 2007.
^ About the KAT. Retrieved on January 23, 2007.
^ Introducing GMRT. Retrieved on January 23, 2007.

[edit] External links

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List of radio telescopes

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[edit] Africa

[edit] Asia

[edit] Australia

[edit] Europe

[edit] North America

[edit] South America

[edit] Space-based

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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