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Introduction

In ASTRO, the name Plateau de Bure interferometer refers to the NOEMA observatory as it was before the delivery of the NOEMA correlator (PolyFix) in 2017. The following refers to this state of the hardware (so-called new generation) of receivers installed in 2006 and NarrowBand + Widex correlator.

Older states of the hardware are available through the “OBSERVATORY BURE PDBI_YEAR” command, where year can be 1995,2000,2006,2013, or 2015. See internal HELP for details.