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Description: In 2009, former North American ALMA Project Director Dr. Adrian Russell spoke with Jean-François Cliche about the precise timing systems that coordinate all of ALMA's telescopes into one array. ALMA's telescopes are spread across miles of the Atacama Desert. Making their signals come together requires perfect timing. The Local Oscillator helps us achieve this.nnComplex electronics accurately stitch ALMA’s individual wave detections together into one dataset. The first step in this process is
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