• DOI:10.1109/JPROC.2009.2017103
Corpus ID: 7486677

The Allen Telescope Array: The First Widefield, Panchromatic, Snapshot Radio Camera for Radio Astronomy and SETI

@article{Welch2009TheAT,
  title={The Allen Telescope Array: The First Widefield, Panchromatic, Snapshot Radio Camera for Radio Astronomy and SETI},
  author={J. Welch and D. Backer and L. Blitz and D. Bock and G. Bower and Calvin Cheng and S. Croft and M. Dexter and G. Engargiola and E. Fields and J. Forster and C. Gutierrez-Kraybill and C. Heiles and T. Helfer and S. Jorgensen and G. Keating and J. Lugten and D. Macmahon and O. Milgrome and D. Thornton and L. Urry and J. Leeuwen and D. Werthimer and P. H. Williams and M. Wright and J. Tarter and R. Ackermann and S. Atkinson and P. Backus and W. Barott and T. Bradford and Michael M. Davis and D. DeBoer and J. Dreher and G. Harp and J. Jordan and T. Kilsdonk and T. Pierson and K. Randall and J. Ross and G. S. Shostak and M. Fleming and C. Cork and A. Vitouchkine and N. Wadefalk and S. Weinreb},
  journal={Proceedings of the IEEE},
  year={2009},
  volume={97},
  pages={1438-1447}
}

• J. Welch, D. Backer, +43 authors S. Weinreb
• Published 2009
• Computer Science, Physics
• Proceedings of the IEEE

The first 42 elements of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA-42) are beginning to deliver data at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in northern California. Scientists and engineers are actively exploiting all of the flexibility designed into this innovative instrument for simultaneously conducting surveys of the astrophysical sky and conducting searches for distant technological civilizations. This paper summarizes the design elements of the ATA, the cost savings made possible by the use of commercial… Expand