Mexico Links LMT with 7 US Radio Telescopes Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original July 10, 2013

Dr David H Hughes, Large Millimeter Telescope Director and Principal Investigator (LATINOSPORTSNETWORK)

MEXICO CITY – Mexico linked its Large Millimeter Telescope with seven U.S. radio telescopes to achieve greater range and resolution in astronomical observations, the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, or INAOE, said.

The institution said in a statement Thursday that the connection – the first to be established “from Mexican territory” – used a technique known as interferometry, whereby data collected by the telescopes is combined to achieve greater joint image resolution.

Mexican astronomers and experts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Haystack Observatory and the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory participated in the observations, it added.

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