Interplanetary Scintillation Array
Illustration — Chart on which Jocelyn Bell Burnell first recognised evidence of a pulsar, later designated PSR B1919+21 (exhibited at Cambridge University Library) The Interplanetary Scintillation Array (also known as the IPS Array or Pulsar Array) is a radio telescope that was built in 1967 at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and was operated by the Cavendish Astrophysics Group. The instrument originally covered 4 acres (16,000 m 2). It was enlarged to 9 acres in 1978, and was refurbished in 1989.
Interplanetary Scintillation Array
Cmglee · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Region
- United Kingdom
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Chart on which Jocelyn Bell Burnell first recognised evidence of a pulsar, later designated PSR B1919+21 (exhibited at Cambridge University Library) The Interplanetary Scintillation Array (also known as the IPS Array or Pulsar Array) is a radio telescope that was built in 1967 at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and was operated by the Cavendish Astrophysics Group. The instrument originally covered 4 acres (16,000 m 2). It was enlarged to 9 acres in 1978, and was refurbished in 1989.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Interplanetary Scintillation Array. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q6056341 · wikipedia · Interplanetary Scintillation Array
In this article
Overview
Overview
The array operates at a radio frequency of 81.5 MHz (3.7 m wavelength), and is made up of 4,096 dipole antennas in a phased array. Using 14 beams, it can map the northern sky in one day. The observatory's staff use sheep to keep grass away from the antennas because a lawn mower cannot fit in the spaces. Antony Hewish designed the IPS Array to measure the high-frequency fluctuations of radio sources, originally for monitoring interplanetary scintillation. Hewish received a Nobel Prize after the high time-resolution of the array allowed Jocelyn Bell to discover allowed the pulsar in 1967. The IPS Array has more recently been used to track and help forecast interplanetary weather, and specifically to monitor the solar wind. It is now essentially retired, and has lost a significant fraction of its area.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- United Kingdom
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Interplanetary Scintillation Array”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6056341: Interplanetary Scintillation Array
General reference · Wikidata
Literature
Literature
The MEXART interplanetary scintillation array in Mexico, Geofísica Internacional, 2004
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Scientific instruments
736 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- integral field spectrographTerminology
- IntegraphTerminology
- Interface Region Imaging SpectrographTerminology
- Interferometric Synthetic Aperture RadarTerminology
- IntihuatanaTerminology
- IRAM 30-meter telescopeTerminology
- Irbene RT32 radio telescopeTerminology
- Isaac Newton TelescopeTerminology
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with Interplanetary Scintillation Array?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.