List of radio telescopes
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| Name | Remarks | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Radio Observatory | 46 metre dish, Operated by Natural Resources Canada as a member of the International VLBI Service | Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada |
| Arecibo Observatory | World's largest single-dish radio telescope. Also known as: Arecibo radio telescope or NAIC | Arecibo, Puerto Rico |
| Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) | 64 dishes with 12-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. | Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile |
| Australia Telescope Compact Array | 6 dish aperture synthesis array, part of Australia Telescope National Facility | Narrabri, Australia |
| Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex | Part of Deep Space Network, located near Canberra in the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve | Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory | seven-element interferometer, 26-m single-dish, solar monitor, and engineering laboratories | Penticton, British Columbia, Canada |
| Effelsberg | 100 m dish operated by Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie | Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg near Bonn, Germany |
| European VLBI Network | VLBI array operated by the European Consortium for VLBI | Distributed across Europe with members located in China, S. Africa and USA |
| Five College Radio Astronomical Observatory | Operated by UMass Amherst | Amherst, Massachusetts, USA |
| Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) | World's largest radio telescope at meter wavelengths. Operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics | Pune, India |
| Green Bank Telescope | World's largest fully mobile single-dish radio telescope | Green Bank, West Virginia, USA |
| Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC) | Also known as Goldstone Observatory | Goldstone, California, USA |
| Goldstone Observatory | Also known as Goldstone Deep Space Network | Goldstone, California, USA |
| 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. |
| HartRAO | Also known as Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory 26m Telescope, also site for first 15m prototype Telescope for KAT (SKA 1%) | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Jodrell Bank Observatory | 76 m Lovell Telescope, 25 m Mark II Telescope, 42 ft (12.8 m) Telescope and 7 m Telescope (actually 6.4 m diameter) | Cheshire, UK |
| KAT | Karoo Apperture Telescope (KAT) 20x 15m Telescopes planned for 2008 as a 1% pathfinder for SKA | Carnarvon, South Africa |
| Kitt Peak 12 m | Previously operated by the NRAO, this telescope is currently operated by the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. | Tucson, Arizona, USA |
| Large Millimeter Telescope | A 50 m. telescope in millimetric wavelengths, the largest single dish instrument operating at this frequences. | Sierra Negra, Mexico |
| LOFAR | Low Frequency Array, | Netherlands, Germany |
| Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex | Part of Deep Space Network | Robledo de Chavela, Madrid, Spain |
| MERLIN | Cambridge 32 m at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Mark III, Darnhall, Defford, Tabley (also known as Pickmere) and Knockin. Also includes the Lovell and Mark II telescopes at Jodrell Bank. | UK |
| Medicina | VLBI Dish 32m., fully steerable dish, 1400 MHz...43GHz, Northern Cross 32000m² Interferometer, cyl-paraboloid steerable over NS., 408 MHz, Beam=3' | Medicina, Bologna Italy [1] |
| Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope | 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. | Molonglo (near Canberra, Australia) |
| Mopra Observatory | 22m dish, operated by ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility) | close to Siding Spring Observatory, near Coonabarabran, Australia |
| Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory | The Ryle Telescope consists of 8 13 m dishes, and is currently used as one part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. Also at the observatory are some of the oldest radio interferometers. | Cambridge, UK |
| Nançay Radio Telescope | Nançay, France | |
| National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) | Also known as Arecibo Observatory or Arecibo radio telescope | Arecibo, Puerto Rico |
| National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) | U.S. Agency which runs the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large Array, the Very Long Baseline Array, and is the U.S. partner in the ALMA collaboration. | Charlottesville, Virginia, USA |
| Noto | VLBI Dish 32m., fully steerable dish, 300MHz...86GHz. It operate as a part of Astronomic and geodetic VLBI network and as single dish. | Noto, ITALY, [2] |
| Onsala Space Observatory | 25 m Telescope, 20 m Telescope and 15 m Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) based at ESO in La Silla, Chile | Onsala, Sweden |
| Parkes Observatory | 64 m Telescope (largest movable dish in the Southern Hemisphere), part of Australia Telescope National Facility | Parkes, Australia |
| Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute | Two 26 m dishes | Rosman, North Carolina, USA |
| Submillimeter Array | Operated jointly by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Taiwan. | Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, USA |
| Toruń Centre for Astronomy | RT4 (32 m) parabolic antenna and RT3 (15 m) antenna. | Toruń, Poland |
| Ukrainian T-shaped Radio telescope, second modification (UTR-2) | World's largest radio telescope at decametre wavelengths (max. collective area 150 000 m2). | Grakovo, Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Very Large Array | Array of 27 dishes. Part of NRAO. | Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
| Very Small Array | Array of 14 dishes, with two larger source-subtraction dishes. Controlled remotely from UK. | Observatorio del Teide, Canary Islands, Spain |
| Very Long Baseline Array | Array system of radio telescopes located in or offshore from the USA; controlled remotely from the Array Operations Center. | Socorro, New Mexico USA (operations center) |
| Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) | Array of radio telescopes [3] | Westerbork, Netherlands |
| Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC) | 32-meter fully steerable parabolic, centimetre-wave range antenna RT-32 and a 16-meter diameter antenna RT-16 http://www.virac.lv/ | Irbene, Latvia |
| Zond 3 | Russian spacecraft carrying a radio Telescope |
[edit] See also
- List of observatories
- Radio telescopes
- A more complete list of radio telescopes can be found by looking at the radio telescopes category
