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The Submillimeter Array (SMA) is an 8-element radio interferometer located atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Operating at frequencies from 180 GHz to 700 GHz, the 6m dishes may be arranged into configurations with baselines as long as 509m, producing a synthesized beam of sub-arcsecond width. Each element can observe with two receivers simultaneously, with 2 GHz bandwidth each. The digital correlator backend allows flexible allocation of thousands of spectral channels to each receiver.
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April 25, 2013
Dense Cloud Breaks Rules of Star Formation article published www.livescience.com "Researchers are discovering new information about a dark bean-shaped cloud in the center of our galaxy." Read More...
March 13, 2013
Sun block for the Greater Dog SMA joins international observatories in the discovery of titanium dioxides TiO2. Read More...
February 15, 2013
Hydrogen Masers in Space Astronomers in the 1960s were amazed to discover that molecular clouds in interstellar space sometimes produced natural masers (the radio wavelength analogs of lasers) that shine with bright, narrow beams of radiation. Read More...
January 10, 2013
A Cloudy Mystery "Near the crowded galactic center, where billowing clouds of gas and dust cloak a supermassive black hole three million times as massive as the sun- a black hole whose gravity is strong enough to grip stars that are whipping around it at thousands of kilometers per second - one particular cloud has baffled astronomers." Read More... Prior Events > | |||||
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