Hercules A

Hercules A
Radio-Optical View of the Galaxy Hercules A - Many thanks to: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Expanded Very Large Array, a New Telescope for New Science


Perley with 3 co authors, 2011:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0532  free 6 page pdf
describe the upgraded array.

This is one of several papers that will appear in a forthcoming Astrophysical Journal EVLA special issue.

I worked in the construction of the original VLA in the 1970s, and was Head of the Telescope Operations Division.

NRAO home page
http://www.nrao.edu/

EVLA home page
https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/evla/index

Wikipedia VLA article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array

More VLA images at
http://images.nrao.edu/Telescopes/VLA