The AOS Technical Building

View of the ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS) Technical Building, located at an altitude of 5000 metres above sea level, on the Chajnantor plateau, in the Chilean Andes. This building hosts the ALMA Correlator, a powerful computer which will combine the signals from the ALMA antennas, making them work together as the most powerful submillimetre-wavelength radio telescope in the world. The ALMA Correlator is the highest and fastest (17 Peta-operations/second) computer ever used at an astronomical site.

Herkunftsnachweis:

ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Caproni (ESO)

Über das Bild

ID:aca_0979
Typ:Fotografisch
Veröffentlichungsdatum:6. Mai 2010 10:47
Größe:4288 x 2562 px

Über das Objekt

Name:Chajnantor
Typ:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Facility
Kategorie:ALMA

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