Observed arrival · 2026-09-20
ADRAR ARRAY: a control room for an imaginary—or simulated—radio telescope
A detailed technical simulator for an interferometric radio telescope array in Mauritania.
- For
- Radio astronomy students, instrument designers, and technical world-builders
- Worth noticing
- The interface models 4,096 channels across a 1.30–1.70 GHz band and exposes scheduling, RFI, calibration, and synthesized imaging views.
Field notes
The dashboard is organized like an observatory operations console rather than a conventional project landing page. Its sections expose array geometry, station health, phase locking, spectral monitoring, scheduling constraints, RFI treatment, and uv-plane reconstruction. The stated hardware model uses fixed 2-metre dishes, local digitization, fibre links, and a 38.4 GB/s correlator stream; visible status figures include 73/73 stations and zero active alarms, though the extract does not clarify whether these are simulated or live.
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