Leighton Radio Telescopes
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Leighton Radio Telescopes
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The Leighton Radio Telescopes are 10.4 meter parabolic dish antennas designed by Robert B. Leighton in the 1970s, which were fabricated on the Caltech campus during the 1970s and 1980s. The telescope surfaces reached an accuracy of 10 microns RMS, allowing observations throughout the millimeter and submillimeter bands. In all, eight of these telescopes were made. They were used as the six elements of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) millimeter interferometer in California, and as single
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Type of dish antenna designed in the 1970s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Radio_Telescopes
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2024-03-19T00:10:56Z
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