Collaborative Research: Astronomy with CARMA

毫米天文研究联合阵列（CARMA）是由天文科学部大学射电天文台（URO）计划支持的三个望远镜阵列合并而成的。加州理工学院的欧文斯谷射电天文台（OVRO）阵列有6台直径10.4米的望远镜，伯克利伊利诺伊马里兰协会（BIMA）阵列有9台直径6.1米的望远镜，芝加哥大学的Sunyaev-Zeldovitch阵列有8台直径3.5米的望远镜。CARMA目前在1mm波长上的分辨率高达0.2弧秒，由于其望远镜直径的非均匀组合，在大范围的角度尺度上提供了出色的成像。CARMA支持的科学涵盖了广泛的天文学主题，包括恒星形成和分子云，外部星系的研究，以及太阳系天体的研究。CARMA是阿塔卡马大型毫米波阵列（ALMA）的探路者，也是毫米干涉测量领域培训专家的管道，以充分利用ALMA的能力为美国天文学服务。CARMA合作之外的用户获得了所有观察时间的30%。

The Combined Array for Research in Millimeter Astronomy (CARMA) was formed from the merger of three telescope arrays supported by the Division of Astronomical Science's University Radio Observatories (URO) Program: Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) array of six 10.4-meter-diameter telescopes, the Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association (BIMA) array of nine 6.1-meter-diameter telescopes, and the University of Chicago's Sunyaev-Zeldovitch Array of eight 3.5-meter-diameter telescopes. CARMA currently achieves resolutions as high as 0.2 arcseconds at a wavelength of 1mm and, due to its heterogeneous combination of telescope diameters, provides excellent imaging over a wide range of angular scales. Science enabled by CARMA covers a broad range of astronomical topics, including star formation and molecular clouds, studies of external galaxies, and the investigation of solar system objects. CARMA is a pathfinder for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and a pipeline for training experts in the field of millimeter interferometry to take full advantage of ALMA's capabilities for US astronomy. Users outside the CARMA collaboration receive 30% of all observing time.