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News

  • Shay Bloxton
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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

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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