Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope

Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope
	Surviving Yagi antennas of the CLFST in June 2014
Location(s)	Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East of England, England
Coordinates	52°10′13″N 0°02′33″E / 52.1704°N 0.0426°E
Wavelength	38, 151 MHz (7.89, 1.99 m)
Website	www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/outreach/radio-telescopes/clfst/
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The Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope (CLFST) is an east-west aperture synthesis radio telescope currently operating at 151 MHz.^[1] It consists of 60 tracking yagis on a 4.6 km baseline, giving 776 simultaneous baselines. These provide a resolution of 70×70 cosec (declination) arcsec², with a sensitivity of about 30 to 50 mJy/beam, and a field of view of about 9°×9°. The telescope is situated at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.

The CLFST has made three astronomical catalogues of the Northern Hemisphere:

6C survey at 151 MHz
7C survey at 151 MHz
8C survey at 38 MHz.

References

^ Dessenne, C.A.-C.; Green, D.A.; Warner, P.J.; Titterington, D.J.; Waldram, E.M.; Barthelmy, S.D.; Butterworth, P.S.; Cline, T.L.; Gehrels, N.; Palmer, D.M.; Fishman, G.J.; Kouveliotou, C.; Meegan, C.A. (August 1996). "Searches for prompt radio emission at 151 MHz from the gamma-ray bursts GRB 950430 and GRB 950706". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 281 (3): 977–984. doi:10.1093/mnras/281.3.977. ISSN 1365-2966.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

[1] Dessenne, C.A.-C.; Green, D.A.; Warner, P.J.; Titterington, D.J.; Waldram, E.M.; Barthelmy, S.D.; Butterworth, P.S.; Cline, T.L.; Gehrels, N.; Palmer, D.M.; Fishman, G.J.; Kouveliotou, C.; Meegan, C.A. (August 1996). "Searches for prompt radio emission at 151 MHz from the gamma-ray bursts GRB 950430 and GRB 950706". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 281 (3): 977–984. doi:10.1093/mnras/281.3.977. ISSN 1365-2966.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

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