Lecture - Technical realization: Current and Upcoming Radio Interferometers

In this chapter, some important low-frequency arrays are introduced, namely: the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). All these arrays and the locations of their telescopes are shown on Fig. 4.1. In the following sections some important information on these arrays are given.

Fig. 4.1 Global map of important low-frequency radio interferometer arrays presented in this course.