Back مصفوفة كارل جي بالغة الكبر Arabic Very Large Array Catalan Very Large Array Czech Very Large Array German Πολύ Μεγάλη Συστοιχία (ραδιοτηλεσκόπια) Greek Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Spanish Very Large Array Estonian آرایه بسیار بزرگ Persian Very Large Array Finnish Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array French
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| Alternative names | VLA  |
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| Named after | Karl Guthe Jansky |
| Part of | NRAO VLA Sky Survey |
| Location(s) | Socorro County, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 34°04′43″N 107°37′04″W / 34.0787492°N 107.6177275°W |
| Organization | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| Altitude | 2,124 m (6,969 ft) |
| Wavelength | 0.6 cm (50 GHz)–410 cm (73 MHz) |
| Built | 1973–1981 |
| Telescope style | location radio telescope combined facility radio interferometer |
| Diameter | |
| Angular resolution | 120 ±80 milliarcsecond |
| Website | science |
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The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory in the southwestern United States built in the 1970s. It lies in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, approximately 50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro. The VLA comprises twenty-eight 25-meter radio telescopes (twenty-seven of which are operational while one is always rotating through maintenance) deployed in a Y-shaped array and all the equipment, instrumentation, and computing power to function as an interferometer. Each of the massive telescopes is mounted on double parallel railroad tracks, so the radius and density of the array can be transformed to adjust the balance between its angular resolution and its surface brightness sensitivity.[2] Astronomers using the VLA have made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way's center, probed the Universe's cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission.
The VLA stands at an elevation of 6,970 feet (2,120 m) above sea level. It is a component of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).[3] The NRAO is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
- ^ "VLA Antennas and The Barn". National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ "Welcome to the Very Large Array". National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
- ^ "Visit the VLA". public.nrao.edu. National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Retrieved 2015-03-24.