Rac tifr ooty

Radio Astronomy Centre (RAC) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

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The Radio Astronomy Centre (RAC) is part of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of the well-known Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).

The RAC is situated near Udhagamandalam (Ooty).




The telescope is operated at 326.5 MHz (a wavelength of 0.92 m) with 15 MHz usable bandwidth.

The large size of the telescope makes it highly sensitive.

The Ooty Radio Telescope has been designed and fabricated fully indigenously.

The ORT completed in 1970 and continues to be one of the most sensitive radio telescopes in the world.

Backends:

Analog Correlator: Used for IPS observations.
New Digital backend System

Ongoing Projects:

IPS observations
Pulsar observations
Spectral line observations

More information on the ORT system can be found in:

1. Swarup, G., et al, 1971, Nature Physical Sciences, 230, 185.
2. Subrahmanyan, R., 1989, Ph.D. Thesis, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
3. Manoharan, P.K., 1991, Ph.D. Thesis, TIFR, University of Bombay.
4. Selvanayagam, A.J., Praveenkumar, A., Nandagopal, D., Velusamy, T., 1993, 1ETE Technical Review, 10, No. 4, 333.
5. Roshi, A.D., 1995, M.Sc. Thesis, Poona University.
6. Ramesh Bhat, N.D., 1998, Ph.D. Thesis, Poona University

Contact:
Radio Astronomy Centre
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Post Box 8,
Udhagamandalam (Ooty) - 643 001,
India.
Telephone: (91- 423) 2244880/2244888
Fax : (91- 423) 2244900

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