Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory

Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) adalah rumah bagi sejumlah besar teleskop radio sintesis aperture, termasuk One-Mile Telescope, 5-km Ryle Telescope, dan Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. Radio interferometri dimulai pada pertengahan 1940-an di pinggiran Cambridge, tetapi dengan dana dari Dewan Penelitian Ilmu Pengetahuan dan sumbangan sebesar £ 100.000 dari Mullard Limited, pembangunan Observatorium Mullard Radio Astronomy dimulai di Lord's Bridge, beberapa kilometer ke barat dari Cambridge. Observatorium ini didirikan di bawah Martin Ryle dari Radio-Astronomy Group of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge dan dibuka oleh Sir Edward Victor Appleton pada tanggal 25 Juli 1957. Kelompok ini sekarang dikenal sebagai Cavendish Astrophysics Group.

Situs ini terletak di Lord's Bridge, Cambridgeshire pada bekas fasilitas penyimpanan persenjataan, sebelah jalur kereta api Cambridge-Bedford. Digunakan untuk membentuk bagian utama dari "5km" radio-teleskop dan Cambridge Low Frequency Telescope Sintesis.

 Teleskop 
 Telescope  Year built  Status Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array  2007  Active Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Small Array  2004  Active Very Small Array (moved to Tenerife in 1999)  1998  Active Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope made first high-resolution maps of Cosmic Microwave Background fluctuations  1995  Decommissioned Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST) first aperture synthesis at optical wavelengths  1993  Operated on clear nights One receiver from the e-MERLIN array  1990  Active Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope (CLFST)  1980  Decommissioned Ryle Telescope (formerly 5-Kilometre Telescope) 1971  Decommissioned(repurposed for AMI LA in 2006) Half-Mile Telescope  1968  Decommissioned Interplanetary Scintillation Array discovered first pulsar  1967  Decommissioned One-Mile Telescope  1964  Decommissioned 4C Array, first telescope at the Cambridge's new observatory, used to make the 4C catalogue  1958  Decommissioned

 Galeri 
The following photographs were taken in June 2014:

 Referensi 

 The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory webpage
 Image from Google maps showing the One-Mile, Half Mile, 4C Array, MERLIN, COAST, CAT and Ryle telescopes.
 Subterranea Britannica entry for Lord's Bridge Forward Filling Depot (also Air Ammunition Park)
 Subterranea Britannica entry for Lord's Bridge Station

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