Tour of Correlator Lab, 23 September 2011

The back of a Station Rack for the ALMA correlator.  There are four types of racks in the correlator which consists of 40 racks total.  The Station Racks receive the data from the individual antennas and perform all the operations on it that can be done on a single-antenna basis.  From the Station Racks the signals are routed to the "Correlator Racks" which perform the actual correlation of antenna signals on an antenna-pair basis.  The blue cables that are so easily seen are the cables used to transport the data between the Station Racks and Correlator Racks.

Records of the NRAO

Still Image

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Digital photograph

2011-09-23

NRAO/AUI/NSF

In September 2011, people from NRAO, Université de Bordeaux, and ALMA-Chile who had worked to design and build the ALMA correlator gathered to celebrate the correlator's completion.

Photographs Series

MMA/ALMA Unit

Charlottesville Correlator Lab Subunit