Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association

Berkeley Illinois Maryland Array
Eight of the nine BIMA antennas (center) as now incorporated into the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy
Alternative names Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association Edit this at Wikidata
Observatory Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy
Hat Creek Radio Observatory Edit this on Wikidata
Location(s) United States
Organization University of California
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
University of Maryland Edit this on Wikidata
Wavelength 100 GHz (3.0 mm)
First light 1986 Edit this on Wikidata
Decommissioned 2005 Edit this on Wikidata
Telescope style Research institute
radio interferometer Edit this on Wikidata
Number of telescopes 9 Edit this on Wikidata
Diameter 6 m (19 ft 8 in) Edit this at Wikidata
Website bima.astro.umd.edu/bima/ Edit this at Wikidata

The Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA) was a collaboration of the Universities of California, Illinois, and Maryland that built and operated the eponymously named BIMA radio telescope array.[1] Originally (1986) the premier imaging instrument in the world at millimeter wavelengths, the array was located at the UCB Hat Creek Observatory. In early 2005 nine of its ten antennas were moved to the Inyo Mountains and combined with antennas from the Caltech Owens Valley Radio Observatory and eight telescopes operating at a wavelength of 3.5 millimeters from the University of Chicago Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA), to form CARMA, the largest millimeter array in the world for radio astronomy at the time. CARMA was in turn decommissioned in 2015.

References

  1. ↑ Radio Astronomy Laboratory at UC Berkeley


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