Band 9 receiver cartridge for ALMA
One of the 73 Band 9 receiver cartridges delivered by NOVA (the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy) under contract to ESO, for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array project. The so-called "Band 9" receivers are the second-shortest wavelength ALMA detectors, measuring light with wavelengths as short as 420µm (0.42 millimetres). The design and manufacture of receivers that can operate at these short wavelengths is particularly challenging.
Credit:
ESO/NOVA
About the Image
| Id: | ann11086a |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 21 December 2011, 11:17 |
| Related announcements: | ann11086 |
| Size: | 1455 x 2219 px |
About the Object
| Type: | • X - ALMA |
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