HIGHLIGHTING THE HISTORY OF FRENCH RADIO ASTRONOMY. 6: THE MULTI-ELEMENT GRATING ARRAYS AT NANÇAY

After constructing a number of simple antennas for solar work at Nancay field station, during the second half of the 1950s and through into the 1960s radio astronomers from the Paris Observatory (Meudon) erected five different innovative multi-element arrays. Three of these operated at 169 MHz, a fourth at 408 MHz and the fifth array at 9,300 MHz. While all of these radio telescopes were used for solar research, one of the 169 MHz arrays was used mainly for galactic and extra-galactic research. In this paper we discuss these arrays and summarise the science that was achieved with them during this important period in the development of French radio astronomy.

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