urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:paul_wild.dss47_2008 1.0 1.13.0.0 Product_Context 2021-06-10 1.0 Original context product describing the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) near Narrabri, Australia. Information was current as of 2021-06-10; but the telescope was used for Cassini radio science data collection in 2008. urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:observatory.paul_wild context_to_associate A description of the Paul Wild Observatory, which hosts the Australia Telescope Compact Array. urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:observatory.dsn context_to_associate A description of the NASA Deep Space Network, of which the ATCA is occasionally a part. https://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au The ATCA web site, current as of 2021-04-06. ATCA Users Guide, Stevens, J., R. Wark, P. Edwards, S. Breen, and K. Lee-Waddell, 15 March 2018. https://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/observing/users_guide/html/atug.pdf A manual describing how to apply for observing time, make a schedule file, and carry out an observation with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. Chapter 1 describes the telescope and what observers need to know before proposing to use it. 54 210.4498612 -30.3128846 236.87 WGS 84 The ATCA is an array of six 22 m diameter antennas of Cassegrain design. The collecting area is equivalent to a single dish of diameter 54 m. The array has a 3 km east-west track with a 214 m northern spur. Five antennas can be moved along these tracks, with the sixth antenna at a fixed position 3 km to the west of the east-west track. The longest possible baseline is, therefore, 6 km. The array can be used for observations in five wavelength bands between 27 cm and (with five antennas only) 3 mm -- frequencies between 1.1 GHz and 105 GHz. Orthogonal polarizations (linear or circular) can be observed simultaneously.