Visit to the Jansky Very Large Array, Long Wavelength Array, and Pie Town Very Long Baseline Interferometry station

Many thanks to Laura Barich and Judy Stanley, NRAO Education and Public Outreach, for their wonderful help during my visit.

 

Below, Larry Brothers, Array Operator, very busy at work, many thanks !

In my old Head of Telescope Operations office :-)

LWA # 1 station electronics container

Pie Town VLBI dish

Pie Town New Mexico - PIE1 GPS CORS Reference Station

Station PIE1 is located next to the Pie Town Very Long Baseline Interferometry antenna. It is operated by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

It is important to monitor the ionospheric conditions above the Jansky Very Large Array and the Long Wavelength Array.

 NOAA National Geodetic Survey CORS pages:
http://geodesy.noaa.gov/CORS/PIE1 
Coordinates:
ftp://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cors/coord/coord_08/pie1_08.coord.txt 

Related posts:
http://herrero-radio-astronomy.blogspot.com/search/label/VLA 
http://herrero-radio-astronomy.blogspot.com/search/label/NRAO%20VLBA 
http://herrero-radio-astronomy.blogspot.com/search/label/Long%20Wavelength%20Array
http://herrero-radio-astronomy.blogspot.com/search/label/Ionospheric%20Modulations

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Long Baseline Array - Owens Valley California