Owens Valley Radio Observatory
The Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is an observatory for Radio Astronomy in California .
OVRO is a facility of the California Institute of Technology and is located near Bishop east of the Sierra Nevada , approximately 400 km north of Los Angeles at an altitude of 1,222 m. The main radio telescopes from OVRO are:
- A millimeter interferometer made up of six antennas, each 10.4 m in diameter. This instrument was relocated to another location in 2005 as part of CARMA .
- Two radio telescopes with 40 m and 5.5 m antenna diameter for investigations of the cosmic background radiation .
- An interferometer consisting of two telescopes with a diameter of 27 m and three antennas with a diameter of 2 m for radio observations of the sun .
- A telescope with a diameter of 25 m is part of the Very Long Baseline Array distributed over the USA .
Web links
- OVRO website (English)
Coordinates: 37 ° 14 ′ 2 " N , 118 ° 16 ′ 56" W.