Authors: Bin Chen (NJIT), Sijie Yu (NJIT), Peijin Zhang (NJIT), Owen Giersch (NJIT), Caius Selhorst (NJIT), Yuqian Wei (NJIT), Jonas Flygare (Caltech), Meiqi Wang (NJIT), Pascal Saint-Hilaire (UC Berkeley), Gregg Hallinan (Caltech), and the OVSA team
The Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) hosts two state-of-the-art radio telescopes operating in concert as an integrated facility to serve the solar and space weather community. Supported by the National Science Foundation’s Geospace Facilities Program, this community facility, referred to as the Owens Valley Solar Arrays (OVSA), provides continuous daily solar observations across highly complementary frequency regimes. The Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) is a solar-dedicated radio array operating in the microwave regime (1–18 GHz) and is currently being upgraded to a 15-element array with next-generation quad-ridged flared horn feeds. The Long Wavelength Array at the OVRO (OVRO-LWA) is a multi-purpose, all-sky radio telescope observing in the meter–decameter regime (15–87 MHz), offering multiple observing modes that can operate in parallel for various applications, including dedicated solar observations. Together, they enable broadband radio imaging spectroscopy that probes a broad range of the solar atmosphere from the chromosphere to the middle corona. The facility addresses diverse scientific topics, including the quiescent solar atmosphere, active regions, solar flares, solar energetic particles, and coronal mass ejections. We present a status update on the instrumentation, introduce the available data products (including new products that tailor real-time space weather applications), and highlight recent scientific results.
