Owens Valley Radio Observatory - CARMA

CARMA

OVRO staff is largely responsible for operating CARMA, which is located 20 miles east of OVRO in the Inyo Mountains. CARMA is a collaboration between Caltech, University of California Berkeley, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, and University of Chicago to observe space at centimeter and millimeter wavelengths with a 23-element interferometer. CARMA uses this interferometer to study the origins of planets, stars and galaxies, as well as to measure the distortions in the cosmic microwave background caused by clusters of galaxies formed soon after the Big Bang.