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What is interferometry?

Author
ALMA Observatory
Published
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Episode Link
https://share.transistor.fm/s/b00fe076

We have already referred to the 66 antennas that make up ALMA, but how do they operate as one telescope? In this episode, Giorgio Siringo, Senior Radio-Frequency Engineer, will explain how interferometry works. Furthermore, let's discover how one supercomputer synchronizes and synthesizes the light received through the antennas to constitute only one giant telescope.

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