Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
The
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (
GMRT), located near
Narayangaon,
Pune in India, is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic
radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre
wavelengths. It is the largest and most sensitive radio telescope array in the world at low frequencies. It is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), a part of the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Mumbai. It was conceived and built under the direction of
Govind Swarup during 1984 to 1996. It is an
interferometric array with baselines of up to . It was recently upgraded with new receivers, after which it is also known as the
upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (
uGMRT).
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