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| Description | e-MERLIN is a unique astronomical facility, which provides radio imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetry with 10-150 milliarcsecond resolution and microJansky sensitivity at centimetre wavelengths. STFC and the University of Manchester now operate e-MERLIN under a contractual framework, which runs until at least April 2014. The e-MERLIN upgrade includes new receivers (with improved sensitivity, wide frequency coverage, and greater flexibility) and a 210 Gb/s optical fibre network has been installed to connect each telescope to a powerful new correlator at Jodrell Bank Observatory. ‘First fringes’ with e-MERLIN were obtained in 2009 and the system is now in the final stages of commissioning: the first images with the full network were made in September 2010.e-MERLIN will have a maximum instantaneous bandwidth of 4 GHz, giving a sensitivity of a few micro Jy/beam at its prime frequencies of 1,5 & 6 GHz. Together with the high resolution provided by the long baselines and the wide-field, spectroscopic and polarisation capabilities enabled by the new correlator, this will enable a wide range of new science programmes to be undertaken. |
| URL | http://www.e-merlin.ac.uk/ |
| Status | Operational since 1976 |
| Scientific Domains | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| RI Categorization | Telescopes |
| Location | Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom |
| MERIL URL | http://portal.meril.eu/meril/view/facilitys/15044 |
