Associated Universities, Inc
Associated Universities, Inc. unites the resources of universities, research organizations and the Federal Government in the planning, construction, and operation of forefront scientific facilities that promote discovery and education while expanding our knowledge of the physical world.
Associated Universities, Inc., (AUI) is a not-for-profit science management corporation that currently operates the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is the North American executive for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility under construction in Chile. Corporate headquarters are located in Washington, DC. The President is its Chief Executive Officer.
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News
Shay Bloxton NRAO/AUI/NSF
West Virginia Student Discovers New Pulsar
January 19, 2010
A West Virginia high-school student has discovered a new pulsar, using data from the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT)… Read More
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Dr. Scott Ransom, NRAO, awarded the 2010 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
January 11, 2010
Associated Universities, Inc. is pleased to announce that Scott Ransom, Associate Astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, managed by AUI for NSF, has been awarded the Helen B… Read More
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EVLA
Expanded Very Large Array Status
December 1, 2009
An external review of the de-multiplexer on the 3-bit, 4Gsps sampler board was held October 1. The samplers are used to digitize the 8 GHz of bandwidth per polarization from each EVLA antenna… Read More
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Science
Core-collapse supernova explosion expelling nearly-spherical debris shell Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means
January 27, 2010
For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similiar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma rays from it… Read More
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Giant Magnetic Loop Sweeps Through Space Between Stellar Pair Peterson et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF
Giant Magnetic Loop Sweeps Through Space Between Stellar Pair
January 13, 2010
Astronomers have found a giant magnetic loop stretched outward from one of the stars making up the famous double-star system Algol… Read More
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Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope NRAO/AUI/NSF
Astronomers Get New Tools for Gravitational-Wave Detection
January 5, 2010
Teamwork between gamma-ray and radio astronomers has produced a breakthrough in finding natural cosmic tools needed to make the first direct detections of the long-elusive gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago… Read More
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Alma
3 Antennas at ALMA’s high-elevation Array Operations Site NRAO/NSF/AUI
ALMA Test Sharpens the Vision of New Observatory
January 4, 2010
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has passed a key milestone crucial to producing the high-quality images that will be the trademark of this revolutionary new tool for astronomy… Read More
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First Three Antennas on the Chajnantor Plateau NRAO/AUI
ALMA Construction: And Then There Were Three by Al Wootten
December 1, 2009
On 20 November, a third antenna joined the two ALMA antennas undergoing verification phases of interferometry at the 5000m Array Operation Site (AOS)… Read More
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ALMA First Fringes at the AOS
ALMA First Fringes at the AOS
November 12, 2009
A team of astronomers and engineers at ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array, have made interferometric measurements of radio signals from an astronomical source from the observatory’s “high site”, which is at an altitude of 5000 meters… Read More
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