Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO)
The radio astronomy observatory of the California Institute of Technology,
located near Bishop, California, about 400 km north of Los Angeles on the
east side of the Sierra Nevada, at an altitude of 1,220 m. Its main instruments
are: the Millimeter-Wavelength Array, a new interferometer
array of six high-accuracy radio telescopes, each 10.4 m in diameter and
moveable along a T-shaped railroad track to give the equivalent resolution
of a single 300-m dish; the 40-Meter Telescope, a single
dish built in 1965; and the Solar Array, consisting of
two 27-m telescopes, dating from 1960, that is now used as an interferometer
for studying magnetic field variations on the Sun.
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