Owens Valley Radio Observatory
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Owens Valley Radio Observatory
(oh-wĕnz) (OVRO) The radio observatory of the California Institute of Technology, located in a semidesert region of California at an altitude of 1200 meters. It contains two 27-meter dishes that were an early radio interferometer but are now used for solar observations, a 40-m dish used mostly for VLBI, and the OVRO Millimeter Array, an interferometer consisting of six 10.4-m dishes, laid out on a T-shaped track 200 m × 220 m.Collins Dictionary of Astronomy © Market House Books Ltd, 2006
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The first instrument, now under development, consists of an array of six 3.5-m radio dishes at the
Owens Valley Radio Observatory near Big Pine, Calif.
Langer told Science News that in the last few weeks, his team has observed activity in the inner part of the star's envelope by monitoring another trace compound, carbon monosulfide, at the
Owens Valley Radio Observatory near Big Pine, Calif.
More recently Thomas Herbig (Caltech) and his colleagues detected an apparent 0.000175 |degrees~ K cooling toward the Coma cluster in measurements made at a wavelength of 1 centimeter at the
Owens Valley Radio Observatory.
Their weapon of choice has been the 40meter radio telescope at the
Owens Valley Radio Observatory near Bishop, Calif.
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