Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy | Radio Telescope Effelsberg

Radio Telescope Effelsberg

Head of the Observatory

Dr. Alex Kraus

Phone:+49 2257 301-120Fax:+49 2257 301-105

Email: akraus@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

Secretary

Annemie Franzen

Phone:+49 2257 301-101Fax:+49 2257 301-105

Email: afranzen@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

Sylvia Wilfert

Phone:+49 2257 301-122Fax:+49 2257 301-105

Email: swilfert@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

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40 years 100-m radio telescope Effelsberg

On May 12, 1971, the 100-m radio telescope at Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg was officially opened; the regular observing program began on August 01, 1972. For more than 30 years the Effelsberg telescope became the largest fully steerable radiotelescope in the world. During the last four decades the telescope and its receivers were continuously improved. The 100-m telescope is stilla world-class instrument for astronomical observations.

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Radio Telescope Effelsberg

With a diameter of 100 meters, the Radio Telescope Effelsberg is one of the largest fully steerable radio telescopes on earth. Since operations started in 1972, the technology has been continually improved (i.e. new surface for the antenna-dish, better reception of high-quality data, extremely low noise electronics) making it one of the most advanced modern telescopes worldwide.

The telescope is employed to observe pulsars, cold gas- and dust clusters, the sites of star formation, jets of matter emitted by black holes and the nuclei (centres) of distant far-off galaxies.

Effelsberg is an important part of the worldwide network of radio telescopes. The combination of different telescopes in interferometric mode makes possible to obtain the sharpest images of the universe.