CARMA: Raising Our Sites: Anneila I. Sargent

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What do astronomers do when they find that the telescopes they are using limit their ability to address questions about how stars and planetary system form or how galaxies originate and evolve? They try to build a bigger, better instrument.

Over the last few years, Caltech radio astronomers have moved their Owens Valley Radio Observatory millimeter-wave array of telescopes to Cedar Flat in the Inyo Mountains of California. There, the Caltech antennas have been connected with others from the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland array to create CARMA, the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy. The higher elevation of Cedar Flat, the larger number of telescopes working together, and a series of upgrades and innovations make CARMA a novel and exciting new instrument that will provide new views of the universe.

Anneila I. Sargent is Caltech's Vice President for Student Affairs, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, and Director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory.

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