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University of Maryland Radio Observatory

DEC 01, 1963

DOI: 10.1063/1.3050686

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The Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Maryland has taken over the operation of General Dynamics Corporation’s Clark Lake Observatory, located near Borrego, California. The radio observatory’s main piece of equipment is a specially designed antenna array, which operates at a wavelength of 11.4 meters with an aperture of two miles, and thus allows investigation of a hitherto largely unexplored spectral region.

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