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Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association

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Berkeley Illinois Maryland Array
Eight of the nine BIMA antennas (center) as now incorporated into the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy
Alternative namesBerkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association Edit this at Wikidata
Part ofCombined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy
Hat Creek Radio Observatory Edit this on Wikidata
Location(s)United States
OrganizationUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland Edit this on Wikidata
Wavelength100 GHz (3.0 mm)
First light1986 Edit this on Wikidata
Decommissioned2005 Edit this on Wikidata
Telescope styleresearch institute
radio interferometer Edit this on Wikidata
Number of telescopesEdit this on Wikidata
Diameter6.1 m (20 ft 0 in) Edit this at Wikidata
Websitebima.astro.umd.edu/bima/ Edit this at Wikidata

The Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA) was a collaboration of the Universities of California, Illinois, and Maryland that built and operated the eponymously named BIMA radio telescope array.[1] Originally (1986) the premier imaging instrument in the world at millimeter wavelengths, the array was located at the UCB Hat Creek Observatory. In early 2005 nine of its ten antennas were moved to the Inyo Mountains and combined with antennas from the Caltech Owens Valley Radio Observatory and eight telescopes operating at a wavelength of 3.5 millimeters from the University of Chicago Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA), to form CARMA, the largest millimeter array in the world for radio astronomy at the time. CARMA was in turn decommissioned in 2015.

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  1. ^ [1][permanent dead link] Radio Astronomy Laboratory at UC Berkeley