The Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) operated by ORP Partner IRAM reached its full sensitivity with the commissioning of its 12th Antenna.

The Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA), operated by ORP Partner IRAM is one of Europe's biggest facilities for astronomical research: a network of high-precision radio antennas located on the Plateau de Bure in the French Alps.

NOEMA reached its full sensitivity with the commissioning of its 12th Antenna. With this step NOEMA will be ready to make unpreceded observations of the celestial millimeter wave radio spectrum which instructs researchers in France, Germany, Spain and from many other countries around the world on the physical and chemical processes which rule the evolution of the cosmos from its very early phase until today.

Read the whole IRAM press release here.

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Eight years after the inauguration of the first NOEMA antenna, the twelfth NOEMA antenna has joined the array. NOEMA is now observing with full sensitivity. Credit: J.Boissier IRAM