Cavendish Astrophysics Group

The group is the second largest of three astronomy departments in Cambridge University.

Instruments under development by the group

• A Heterodyne Array Receiver for B-band (HARP-B) at the James_Clerk_Maxwell_Telescope
• The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - several modules of this international project
• The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI)
• The Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MRO Interferometer)
• The Planck Surveyor
• The Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST)
• The Extended Very Small Array
• The CLOVER telescopes

  Existing / previous instruments

• The 5km Ryle Telescope
• The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
• The Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope
• The Half-Mile Telescope
• The One-Mile Telescope
• The Interplanetary Scintillation Array which discovered the first pulsar
• The 4C Array which made the 4C catalogue
• The Cambridge_Interferometer
• Various aperture masking instruments for optical aperture synthesis

  Catalogues published by the group

• 3C catalogue 159-MHz
• 4C catalogue 178-MHz
• 5C catalogue 408-MHz and 1407-MHz
• 6C catalogue 151-MHz
• 7C catalogue 151-MHz
• 8C catalogue 38-MHz
• 9C catalogue 15-GHz
• Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation survey
  

  Famous Group Members

• Sir Martin Ryle, 1918-1984, Nobel Prize for Physics, founder of the group, former British Astronomer Royal
• Tony Hewish, Nobel Prize for Physics, designed the telescope which discovered the first pulsars
• Malcolm Longair Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, head of Cavendish Laboratory
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, detected the first signal from a pulsar
  

  Links

  Cavendish Astrophysics Group webpage