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Cavendish Astrophysics Group

The group is the second largest of three Astronomy Departments In The University Of Cambridge .

Instruments under development by the group

A Heterodyne Array Receiver for B-band (HARP-B) at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - several modules of this international project

The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI)

The Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MRO Interferometer)

The Planck Surveyor

The Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST)

The Extended Very Small Array

The CLOVER Telescope

Existing / previous instruments

The 5km Ryle Telescope

The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope

The Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope

The Half-Mile Telescope

The One-Mile Telescope

The Interplanetary Scintillation Array which discovered the first Pulsar

The 4C Array which made the 4C catalogue

The Cambridge Interferometer

The Long Michelson Interferometer

Various Aperture Masking instruments for optical Aperture Synthesis

Catalogues published by the group

Preliminary survey of the radio stars in the Northern Hemisphere (sometimes called the 1C catalogue) at 81.5-MHz (unreliable at low flux levels)

2C catalogue 81.5-MHz (unreliable at low flux levels)

3C catalogue 159-MHz

4C catalogue 178-MHz

5C catalogue 408-MHz and 1407-MHz

6C catalogue 151-MHz

7C catalogue 151-MHz

8C catalogue 38-MHz

9C catalogue 15-GHz

Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation Survey

Famous Group Members

Sir Martin Ryle , 1918-1984, Nobel Prize For Physics , founder of the group, former British Astronomer Royal

Tony Hewish , Nobel Prize For Physics , designed the telescope which discovered the first pulsars

Malcolm Longair Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, former head of the Cavendish Laboratory

Jocelyn Bell Burnell , detected the first signal from a pulsar

John E. Baldwin

Richard E. Hills

F. Graham Smith - early co-worker with Ryle, later Astronomer-Royal

External links

Cavendish Astrophysics Group webpage