¥Concept
began about 11 years ago (1998)
¥NRAOÕs Ray
Escoffier was busy with ALMAÕs correlator - could not commit to EVLAÕs
also
¥Canada
needed an ÔinÕ into ALMA (a share in its use)
¥Rick
Perley contacted Peter Dewdney of DRAO, Penticton, BC, Canada; they go
back to college days
¥Peter,
after much effort, got funding ~$25M by the Canadian
Government to supply the correlator in return for access to NRAO antennas
including our share in ALMA.
¥Primary
architect of WIDAR is Brent Carlson of DRAO
¥Hardware
was built in Canada
¥Software
is being developed as a joint effort between NRAO
and DRAO.
¥