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Are all the Antennas the same?

Author
ALMA Observatory
Published
Fri 08 Dec 2023
Episode Link
https://share.transistor.fm/s/2a907cb0

Sixty-six antennas working together made possible the operation of ALMA Observatory.

How can this telescope in the Atacama Desert see a whole part of the Cosmos that could not be seen before? In this episode, Emilio Barrios, the Array Operations Manager working at ALMA since 2008, explains why there are three antennas and how they interact with their receivers to get weak signals from the Universe.

Furthermore, let's know how this revolutionary radio telescope, which allows us to see a previously unreachable part of the Cosmos, came to be due to the efforts of engineers and scientists worldwide.

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