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Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

The sixty-six-antenna millimetre and submillimetre array on the Llano de Chajnantor in northern Chile, at about five thousand metres, where the air is dry enough for observations at 1.3…

-23.0, -67.8 · approximate · inaugurated 2013; phased for VLBI from the mid-2010s

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  • member of Event Horizon TelescopePhased into a single very large effective dish, ALMA contributes the bulk of the array's sensitivity and makes the longest baselines usable.

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